UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2012

Tampa, FL, USA

The pinkish orange lights dimmed out as the diamond shaped object moved overhead toward the east.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-18
Where
Tampa, FL, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
27.948, -82.458 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-tampa-fl-2012-420210
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

  • One of 225 documented reports from Tampa, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 459 sightings in 2012.
  • Diamond sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.4%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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