St. Petersburg Beach, FL, USA
Object bursted into a glow, then shot across horizon, shot back , and then moved smooth like a plane.Unreal!
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-26
- Where
- St. Petersburg Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- approx. 10 min.
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-st-petersburg-beach-fl-2004-76121e
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 12 documented reports from St. Petersburg Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 207 sightings in 2004.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.