CaseTeardrop2013
Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Everyone that saw admitted never seen anything like it
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-03
- Where
- Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 26.708, -80.231 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-royal-palm-beach-fl-2013-045724
Wave
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 43 documented reports from Royal Palm Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 543 sightings in 2013.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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