CaseCircle1998
Tampa, FL, USA
A LITTLE LARGER THAN A FULL MOON (WHITE IN COLOR). TWO FAST MOVING CIRCLES MOVING IN LARGE CIRCLES. ANOTHER DRIFTING SLOWLY. NO SOUND
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-19
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 MINUTES
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-tampa-fl-1998-5c2c48
In context
- Tampa, FL shows up 225 times across the archive.
- 107 reports came from Florida in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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