UFOMYST
CaseOther2009

Daytona Beach, FL, USA

1 white bright object with 3 small red green and white ones around it. ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling star? PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-07-14
Where
Daytona Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 hours
Geo
29.211, -81.023 · exact
Slug
other-over-daytona-beach-fl-2009-30bd1a
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Daytona Beach, FL shows up 50 times across the archive.
  • 254 reports came from Florida in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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