Miami, FL, USA
Huge fireball above Miami International Airport
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-03-15
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- ~5 seconds
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-miami-fl-2014-2d9980
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…
Local cluster
March 2014 was a busy month for Miami, FL: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 340 reports logged in Miami, FL.
- This case is one of 644 Florida reports filed in 2014.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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