UFOMYST
CaseChanging2017

St. Petersburg, FL, USA

Round shaped craft with 4 lights spotted over water at Fort De Soto Campground; morphed shape into military grade looking plane.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-09
Where
St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1-3 minutes
Geo
27.771, -82.679 · exact
Slug
changing-over-st-petersburg-fl-2017-4edc14
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…

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In context

  • St. Petersburg, FL shows up 118 times across the archive.
  • 334 reports came from Florida in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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