CaseLight2016

Palm Harbor, FL, USA

On the night of Aug 23 at around 9 to 9:30pm I observed a group of about 20 orange/red Lights traveling from west to east in the sky. T

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 660s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-23
Where
Palm Harbor, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10-12 minutes
Geo
28.078, -82.764 · exact
Slug
light-over-palm-harbor-fl-2016-d84a6b
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…

In context

  • One of 26 documented reports from Palm Harbor, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 365 sightings in 2016.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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