Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
Unknow object moving past falling space shuttle Atlantis external fuel tank (NASA TV)
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-09-09
- Where
- Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 4-5 seconds
- Geo
- 28.406, -80.605 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-cape-canaveral-fl-2006-5a780c
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
- This is one of 21 reports logged in Cape Canaveral, FL.
- This case is one of 219 Florida reports filed in 2006.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.