CaseLight2005

Homestead, FL, USA

We went out to see the meteor shower tonight. We figured the best place, away from the Kendall area (and bright city lights) was Homest

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-08-11
Where
Homestead, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
25.469, -80.478 · exact
Slug
light-over-homestead-fl-2005-e0f3b5
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

  • Homestead, FL shows up 33 times across the archive.
  • 244 reports came from Florida in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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