UFOMYST
CaseUnknown1978

Florida Keys, FL, USA

A unidentified erratically flying object spotted at night in the Florida Keys in the late seventies

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-01
Where
Florida Keys, FL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
15 min
Geo
24.667, -81.583 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-florida-keys-fl-1978-93a74a
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Florida Keys, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 12 sightings in 1978.

Report

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