West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Orange glowing orb releasing blue smoke in all directions .
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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 (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-07
- Where
- West Palm Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 26.715, -80.053 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-west-palm-beach-fl-2013-9d975f
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
4 reports came out of West Palm Beach, FL in August 2013 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- West Palm Beach, FL has 86 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 543 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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