Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
On July 4, 2014, approximately 9:30 p.m. ET, near Cape Canaveral, Florida, we witness 6 UFO sightings of orange orbs ....
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-04
- Where
- Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10-15 minutes
- Geo
- 28.406, -80.605 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-cape-canaveral-fl-2014-eba11b
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
- One of 21 documented reports from Cape Canaveral, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 644 sightings in 2014.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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