UFOMYST
CaseOval1952

Tampa, FL, USA

Triangulation radar fix (USAF, civil, Navy). I ordered intercept by SAC B-29. B-29 tracked object. Central fire control system locked

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-08-01
Where
Tampa, FL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 hrs. 30 min.
Geo
27.948, -82.458 · exact
Slug
oval-over-tampa-fl-1952-8fd9da
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1952

    The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round

    United States, focal point Washington D.C.

    The biggest official flap in U.S. history. On the weekends of July 19-20 and 26-27, unknowns tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB — with simultaneous visual and airborne confirmations —…

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In context

  • One of 225 documented reports from Tampa, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 6 sightings in 1952.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.1% during the 1950s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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