CaseFireball2019

New Port Richey, FL, USA

Strange light in Pasco Co., FL.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-07-03
Where
New Port Richey, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
28.244, -82.719 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-new-port-richey-fl-2019-18155d
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…

In context

  • This is one of 55 reports logged in New Port Richey, FL.
  • This case is one of 413 Florida reports filed in 2019.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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