Miami, FL, USA
At 9:21 pm E.S.T. the entire south eastern sky lit up with a bright green flash, twice in a one minute period about 30 seconds apart.
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-01-27
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-miami-fl-2011-c5db43
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
3 reports came out of Miami, FL in January 2011 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Miami, FL has 340 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 338 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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