Gulf of Mexico, FL, USA
Strange moving star; no pattern at all. Watched a full hour before I got tired but it did not go away. The next night I saw it again!
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-15
- Where
- Gulf of Mexico, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-gulf-of-mexico-fl-2015-95082e
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 6 reports logged in Gulf of Mexico, FL.
- This case is one of 475 Florida reports filed in 2015.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
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.