UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2016

Spring Hill, FL, USA

Fireball in sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a sighting of Venus. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (16 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
2016-12-30
Where
Spring Hill, FL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
>2 minutes
Geo
28.477, -82.525 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-spring-hill-fl-2016-36fdf2
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 49 reports logged in Spring Hill, FL.
  • This case is one of 365 Florida reports filed in 2016.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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