CaseDisk2018
Tampa, FL, USA
Saucer heading north, apparently slowing down.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-12-03
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-tampa-fl-2018-74d7a5
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 225 reports logged in Tampa, FL.
- This case is one of 226 Florida reports filed in 2018.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.