UFOMYST
CaseFlash2017

Palm Bay, FL, USA

Sonic boom, followed by zoom sounds.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-10-04
Where
Palm Bay, FL, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
28.034, -80.589 · exact
Slug
flash-over-palm-bay-fl-2017-8ff861
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 34 documented reports from Palm Bay, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 334 sightings in 2017.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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