Stuart, FL, USA
First, I am not a follower of UFO sightings. I just plugged in "fireballs in sky over Stuart" in my search box to see if there was anyt
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-03-01
- Where
- Stuart, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- aprox 1 minute
- Geo
- 27.198, -80.253 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-stuart-fl-2012-da7768
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
- Stuart, FL has 23 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 459 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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