Key West, FL, USA
4 horizontal lights ( white-red-white-red) traveled from horizon to horizon in 15 seconds.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-12-07
- Where
- Key West, FL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 24.555, -81.782 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-key-west-fl-2009-a53d06
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…
In context
- Key West, FL shows up 25 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%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.