Cudjoe Key, FL, USA
Reddish streak that traveled west to east then same streak a few seconds later reappeared traveling opposite direction at a high apeed
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-01
- Where
- Cudjoe Key, FL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- Few seconds each
- Geo
- 24.672, -81.498 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-cudjoe-key-fl-2020-84a86c
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
- Cudjoe Key, FL has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 403 reports from Florida.
- The 2020s skewed 1.1% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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