CaseOval2017

Lantana, FL, USA

Last night my wife and looked at the moon and noticed a large football-shaped object in the sky. I initially thought it was a balloon.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-06-11
Where
Lantana, FL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2:00
Geo
26.587, -80.052 · exact
Slug
oval-over-lantana-fl-2017-ea3307
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

  • Lantana, FL has 14 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 334 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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