Valrico, FL, USA
translucent pink orange colors, bird shape, 5 of them making a formation of a triangle as they move foward on a swimming motion,
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-08-30
- Where
- Valrico, FL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 27.938, -82.236 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-valrico-fl-2010-ad55bd
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
- Valrico, FL has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 221 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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