St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Orange bright sphere changing shape into a stripe, chanting color to white and fading away
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-12-16
- Where
- St. Petersburg, FL, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 25 seconds
- Geo
- 27.771, -82.679 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-st-petersburg-fl-2019-ad66f6
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 118 reports logged in St. Petersburg, FL.
- This case is one of 413 Florida reports filed in 2019.
- Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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