CaseChanging2008

Gainesville, FL, USA

((HOAX??)) Black triangular form-shifting mass spotted.

Report quality: Low36/100

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  • Duration parsed: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-01-01
Where
Gainesville, FL, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
29.652, -82.325 · exact
Slug
changing-over-gainesville-fl-2008-19a976
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Gainesville, FL logged 3 reports in the single month of January 2008.

In context

  • One of 71 documented reports from Gainesville, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 303 sightings in 2008.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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