Tampa, FL, USA
Red and cobalt blue pulsing light seen moving quickly across sky above Gandy Bridge, Flying southeast toward MacDill AFB.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-04-06
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minutes
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tampa-fl-2015-f6f3da
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…
Local cluster
Tampa, FL logged 3 reports in the single month of April 2015.
In context
- One of 225 documented reports from Tampa, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 475 sightings in 2015.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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