CaseLight2011

West Palm Beach, FL, USA

ok was outside, noticed the sky looked a bit brighter, then what i thought e=was a star began to move . not fast but unusual because

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-05-08
Where
West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
26.715, -80.053 · exact
Slug
light-over-west-palm-beach-fl-2011-ca23b8
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

  • One of 86 documented reports from West Palm Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 338 sightings in 2011.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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