CaseLight2018

Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA

We were on the highway near exit 23 by Hollywood fl. And we saw 3 lights in the sky. Right above the tree line and below the stars. The

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-30
Where
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
26.122, -80.143 · exact
Slug
light-over-ft-lauderdale-fl-2018-6c9b21
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…

In context

  • This is one of 32 reports logged in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
  • This case is one of 226 Florida reports filed in 2018.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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