Maderia Beach, FL, USA
Driving home....we saw four very very bright orbs steadily traveling across gulf blvd toward the Gulf of Mexico. They were red glowing
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-17
- Where
- Maderia Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-maderia-beach-fl-2021-7ddfea
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 1 reports logged in Maderia Beach, FL.
- This case is one of 218 Florida reports filed in 2021.
- Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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