UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2018

Tampa, FL, USA

Was coming home from work, just happen to look up cylinder shape object was coming from tampa state fairground from me headed north and

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-02-15
Where
Tampa, FL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
27.948, -82.458 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-tampa-fl-2018-1bf83e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Tampa, FL has 225 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 226 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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