Gainesville, FL, USA
2nd night watching the objects, approximate time viewed 15-20 minutes. ((NUFORC Note: Possible stars?? PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 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
- 2010-09-09
- Where
- Gainesville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 45 min
- Geo
- 29.652, -82.325 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-gainesville-fl-2010-5d55a0
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
- One of 71 documented reports from Gainesville, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 221 sightings in 2010.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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