Bradenton, FL, USA
Saw it Again to the West this time.Large Colorful Pulsating Light.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-12-24
- Where
- Bradenton, FL, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 30 min
- Geo
- 27.499, -82.575 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-bradenton-fl-2011-5ce2d3
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Bradenton, FL in December 2011 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Bradenton, FL has 74 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 338 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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