Hollywood, FL, USA
Misterious ball of fire and smoke over Hollywood FL on 12-25-2012 @ 13:33
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-25
- Where
- Hollywood, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 26.011, -80.149 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hollywood-fl-2012-c78b60
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 43 reports logged in Hollywood, FL.
- This case is one of 459 Florida reports filed in 2012.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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