Brandon, FL, USA
It looks exactly like a star that flashes red,blue,green,yellow etc...I knew it wasn't a plane because of all the activity that came wi
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-05-08
- Where
- Brandon, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 nights
- Geo
- 27.938, -82.286 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-brandon-fl-2014-5bbf98
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
- Brandon, FL shows up 39 times across the archive.
- 644 reports came from Florida in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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