UFOMYST
CaseSphere2017

Niceville, FL, USA

Orange sphere traveling north west from the Gulf of Mexico, just above the horizon; silent, level flight path.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-05
Where
Niceville, FL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
30.517, -86.482 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-niceville-fl-2017-838498
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…

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In context

  • Niceville, FL has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 334 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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