Satellite Beach, FL, USA
Big bright white sphere over the sky that looks bigger than a full moon, without making a sound. ((NUFORC Note: Lens flares. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-07-16
- Where
- Satellite Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 28.176, -80.590 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-satellite-beach-fl-2016-a272dc
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
- Satellite Beach, FL has 21 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 365 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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