CaseFireball2004
Tampa, FL, USA
I saw a green fireball over the city of Tampa 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 (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-26
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30seconds
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-tampa-fl-2004-791dbd
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
- Tampa, FL has 225 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 207 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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