UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

Moving slowly from S to N along FTL Beach bright red lights glided quietly without sound in plain sight. ((anonymous report))

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-19
Where
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
26.122, -80.143 · exact
Slug
light-over-fort-lauderdale-fl-2017-ef0b63
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

  • Fort Lauderdale, FL has 94 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 334 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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