Sarasota, FL, USA
The 3 craft hovered over Sarasota Bay, no sound , round lights could not make out any other shape They then took off very fast to the W
Report quality: High73/100
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
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-07-04
- Where
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 27.336, -82.531 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-sarasota-fl-2018-deb5f6
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…
Local cluster
Sarasota, FL logged 4 reports in the single month of July 2018.
In context
- One of 130 documented reports from Sarasota, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 226 sightings in 2018.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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