CaseDisk2019

New Port Richey, FL, USA

Saw what looked like large fireballs, orange to red in color, approach from the west (Gulf of Mexico) and hover for a few seconds above

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-12-25
Where
New Port Richey, FL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
28.244, -82.719 · exact
Slug
disk-over-new-port-richey-fl-2019-64e62e
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of New Port Richey, FL in December 2019 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • New Port Richey, FL has 55 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 413 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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