West Palm Beach, FL, USA
At around 6pm (18:00 hours) I was outside in the backyard of my home with my Canon EOS Rebel XT digital camera taking photographs of na
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-10-11
- Where
- West Palm Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 26.715, -80.053 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-west-palm-beach-fl-2009-2b9045
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…
Local cluster
October 2009 was a busy month for West Palm Beach, FL: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 86 reports logged in West Palm Beach, FL.
- This case is one of 254 Florida reports filed in 2009.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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