CaseLight1972
Tarpon Springs, FL, USA
A witness in Tarpon Springs, Florida reported nine colored, hovering spherical lights along with helicopters below them, observed near a power facility during an eight-minute sighting in June 1972.
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (197 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-06-30
- Where
- Tarpon Springs, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 28.146, -82.757 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tarpon-springs-fl-1972-9bdc10
In context
- Tarpon Springs, FL has 14 sightings on file here.
- 1972 brought 10 reports from Florida.
- The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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