Sarasota, FL, USA
It was definitely cylinder shaped. It had white lights on the inside, and had lights on the bottom of the object.
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-04-16
- Where
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 27.336, -82.531 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-sarasota-fl-2019-46961c
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
- Sarasota, FL has 130 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 413 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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