CaseSphere2000
Merritt Island, FL, USA
UFO sighting near Kennedy Space Center 2000
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-03-15
- Where
- Merritt Island, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 28.359, -80.690 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-merritt-island-fl-2000-be70d9
In context
- Merritt Island, FL shows up 25 times across the archive.
- 120 reports came from Florida in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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.