Tampa, FL, USA
((NUFORC Note: Missile launch at 2055 hrs (EDT). PD)) there were three (they were the size of my fist) and two disappeared…
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-04-29
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-5 Minutes
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tampa-fl-2005-b5ed74
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
- Tampa, FL has 225 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 244 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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