UFOMYST
CaseFireball2013

St. Petersburg, FL, USA

Orange/red orb resembles a fireball moving up into the sky, then disappeared.

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-04-28
Where
St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5-10 minutes
Geo
27.771, -82.679 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-st-petersburg-fl-2013-62a7f2
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 118 documented reports from St. Petersburg, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 543 sightings in 2013.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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