Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
I was watching coast helicopter hovering 10 feet off water for 30 mins in same spot , after about 20 mins , a boat came in and helicopt
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-11-01
- Where
- Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 26.122, -80.143 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ft-lauderdale-fl-2016-359b6a
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…
In context
- One of 32 documented reports from Ft. Lauderdale, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 365 sightings in 2016.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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