UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2018

Vero Beach, FL, USA

I saw a large tadpole, or teardrop. shaped red-orange fiery looking object. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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  • Duration parsed: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-01-19
Where
Vero Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
4-5 minutes
Geo
27.639, -80.397 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-vero-beach-fl-2018-c885bc
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

  • One of 63 documented reports from Vero Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 226 sightings in 2018.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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