St. Petersburg, FL, USA
I saw a floating fire ball object that stopped and hovered for a few minutes then shot off in the air, took a clear picture
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-12-14
- Where
- St. Petersburg, FL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- walking into home
- Geo
- 27.771, -82.679 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-st-petersburg-fl-2011-a248b5
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
- St. Petersburg, FL has 118 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 338 reports from Florida.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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