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CaseOval2009

St. Petersburg, FL, USA

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Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-03
Where
St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
27.771, -82.679 · exact
Slug
oval-over-st-petersburg-fl-2009-525d5f
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • St. Petersburg, FL has 118 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 254 reports from Florida.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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