CaseLight1996
Buckhead Ridge, FL, USA
I observed an object apparently making a controlled reentry or entry into the atmosphere. It was the size of a medium sized star and
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: 330s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-01-31
- Where
- Buckhead Ridge, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 min 30 sec
- Geo
- 27.130, -80.894 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-buckhead-ridge-fl-1996-888e3e
In context
- Buckhead Ridge, FL shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 50 reports came from Florida in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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