Palm Harbor, FL, USA
Bright light that shined out rays of light in all different directions and patterns. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2020-01-28
- Where
- Palm Harbor, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ongoing
- Geo
- 28.078, -82.764 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-palm-harbor-fl-2020-cec696
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
- This is one of 26 reports logged in Palm Harbor, FL.
- This case is one of 403 Florida reports filed in 2020.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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