CaseChanging2017

Valrico, FL, USA

Large Disk shape, changing shape and color and smaller objects flying around it.

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-08
Where
Valrico, FL, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
~3 hours
Geo
27.938, -82.236 · exact
Slug
changing-over-valrico-fl-2017-8260df
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Valrico, FL has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 334 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

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.