Tampa, FL, USA
A bright green sphere about the size of the moon shot across the sky in Tampa FL.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-07
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1-1.5 seconds
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-tampa-fl-2009-bce2b0
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
- Tampa, FL has 225 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 254 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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