UFOMYST
CaseOther2015

Clearwater, FL, USA

Multi-colored fiery ball that created a tail like a meteor; lasted 5 seconds and disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: Meteor? 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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 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
2015-11-16
Where
Clearwater, FL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
27.966, -82.800 · exact
Slug
other-over-clearwater-fl-2015-9b2185
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Clearwater, FL reports filed in November 2015.

In context

  • Clearwater, FL shows up 69 times across the archive.
  • 475 reports came from Florida in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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