UFOMYST
CaseCircle2004

Bradenton, FL, USA

Round and glowing

Report quality: Moderate60/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (17 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-03-28
Where
Bradenton, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
over an hour
Geo
27.499, -82.575 · exact
Slug
circle-over-bradenton-fl-2004-497e58
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

Bradenton, FL logged 3 reports in the single month of March 2004.

In context

  • One of 74 documented reports from Bradenton, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 207 sightings in 2004.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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