CaseOval2011

Venice, FL, USA

Right before the firework display started at the beach we(my kids and I) were looking up in the sky from the peer at the stars and we s

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
2011-12-31
Where
Venice, FL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
27.100, -82.454 · exact
Slug
oval-over-venice-fl-2011-be9eaa
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…

In context

  • Venice, FL shows up 40 times across the archive.
  • 338 reports came from Florida in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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