Tampa, FL, USA
VIDEO CAN BE SEEN ON YOUTUBE AT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKh9oyT-mU&t=18s My mother and I are standing in the backyard until
Report quality: High73/100
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-01
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5-7 minutes
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-tampa-fl-2019-dc6ed5
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
3 reports came out of Tampa, FL in October 2019 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Tampa, FL has 225 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 413 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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