Venice, FL, USA
From the horizon then a 90 degree turn directly towards us, turning into a fast light under water. Surfaced like a lightning bug.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-07-06
- Where
- Venice, FL, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- ~1 minute
- Geo
- 27.100, -82.454 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-venice-fl-2016-217258
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
- Venice, FL shows up 40 times across the archive.
- 365 reports came from Florida in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.