UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2007

Tampa, FL, USA

Comet like object with a crayon in the middle. ((NUFORC Note: Missile venting fuel in space. 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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 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
2007-12-10
Where
Tampa, FL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
27.948, -82.458 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-tampa-fl-2007-1e81df
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

  • One of 225 documented reports from Tampa, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 264 sightings in 2007.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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