Gainesville, FL, USA
((HOAX??)) Black triangular form-shifting mass spotted.
Report quality: Low36/100
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: 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
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…
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 daysReport
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