UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2008

Daytona Beach to Tampa, FL, USA

4:30 am to sunrise Southern sky driving on I-4 from Daytona Beach to Tampa two comets tracked the same latitude as Moon as bright

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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 (129 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-01
Where
Daytona Beach to Tampa, FL, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
2.5 hours
Geo
—
Slug
teardrop-over-daytona-beach-to-tampa-fl-2008-188a24
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Daytona Beach to Tampa, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 303 sightings in 2008.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.9%).

Report

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