UFOMYST
CaseFormation1978

New Symrna beach, FL, USA

Formation of orbs daytime chased by fighter jets over beach in New Symrna, Florida 1978.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-14
Where
New Symrna beach, FL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
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Slug
formation-over-new-symrna-beach-fl-1978-2ebb2d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • New Symrna beach, FL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 12 reports from Florida.
  • The 1970s skewed 1.3% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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