Pinellas Park, FL, USA
A BRIGHT blue, red, green, white globe that would go out and randomly change colors. ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling star? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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 (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2010-10-12
- Where
- Pinellas Park, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- about 30 minutes
- Geo
- 27.843, -82.700 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-pinellas-park-fl-2010-7bfa14
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
- One of 25 documented reports from Pinellas Park, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 221 sightings in 2010.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
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.