West Melbourne, FL, USA
Orange and red lights. Hard yo see shape was surrounded by lights. Traveling fast and pretty low. No noise no sound no engine noise. On
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-01-01
- Where
- West Melbourne, FL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 28.072, -80.653 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-west-melbourne-fl-2018-d463fb
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
- West Melbourne, FL has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 226 reports from Florida.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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