UFOMYST
CaseOval2009

Tampa, FL, USA

UFO spotted on TV right before the Superbowl

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-02-01
Where
Tampa, FL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
4-5 seconds
Geo
27.948, -82.458 · exact
Slug
oval-over-tampa-fl-2009-9269e6
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Tampa, FL reports filed in February 2009.

In context

  • Tampa, FL shows up 225 times across the archive.
  • 254 reports came from Florida in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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