Miami, FL, USA
White light moving slowly to the northeast changed to northwest, then northeast again, changed to red, then went to dim white again
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-05-14
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-miami-fl-2006-6e252a
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…
Local cluster
May 2006 was a busy month for Miami, FL: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 340 reports logged in Miami, FL.
- This case is one of 219 Florida reports filed in 2006.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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