Brandon, FL, USA
8 amber colored spheres seen in the sky traveling in formation, then disappearing.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-02-23
- Where
- Brandon, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~4 minutes
- Geo
- 27.938, -82.286 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-brandon-fl-2014-3b1e25
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
- One of 39 documented reports from Brandon, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 644 sightings in 2014.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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