CaseChanging2008

Apalachicola, FL, USA

((HOAX??)) On January 27,2008, i saw an UFO while i sat in my own backyard with 3 other family members.

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-01-27
Where
Apalachicola, FL, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
2 mins or less
Geo
29.726, -84.986 · exact
Slug
changing-over-apalachicola-fl-2008-7eedd3
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…

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Apalachicola, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 303 sightings in 2008.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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