Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
During the launch of a Delta 2, an object was seen and photographed along the flight path. The object did not move and was not a star
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-10-17
- Where
- Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- not determined
- Geo
- 28.406, -80.605 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-cape-canaveral-fl-2007-fad7e1
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
- Cape Canaveral, FL has 21 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 264 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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