CaseLight2005

Merritt Island, FL, USA

There was a full moon out and i decided it would be a good picture so I started filming the moon with my cell phone. What I notice late

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-11-15
Where
Merritt Island, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 minute
Geo
28.359, -80.690 · exact
Slug
light-over-merritt-island-fl-2005-def570
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

  • Merritt Island, FL shows up 25 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%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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