CaseDisk1985

Tampa, FL, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Tampa, FL, USA
Start: 1985-06-01
Location: Tampa, FL, USA

My two children and their friends ,playing on a swingset in our backyard,in tampa fl. called to me , "come outside mom nd see the ufo's

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1985-06-01
Where: Tampa, FL, USA
Shape: Disk
Duration: 5minutes
Geo: 27.948, -82.458 · exact
Slug: disk-over-tampa-fl-1985-cbd4b4

In context

Tampa, FL has 225 sightings on file here.
1985 brought 18 reports from Florida.
The 1980s skewed 14.3% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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