Sarasota, FL, USA
the object seen was oval in shape with two winglike projections and a blue light emanating from the tail as seen with a pair of binocul
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-11-26
- Where
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- one hour
- Geo
- 27.336, -82.531 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-sarasota-fl-2005-300993
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
- Sarasota, FL shows up 130 times across the archive.
- 244 reports came from Florida in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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