Clearwater, FL, USA
I stepped out onto my balcony and saw an unusual looking star-like object hovering at approximately 5000 ft and approximately two miles
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-09-01
- Where
- Clearwater, FL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 27.966, -82.800 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-clearwater-fl-2018-64b3fc
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
- Clearwater, FL shows up 69 times across the archive.
- 226 reports came from Florida in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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