Tampa, FL, USA
I was in a parking lot close to Waters Ave. and Anderson Rd facing E, 1 mile North of Tampa International Airport. ((anon.))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-10-01
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-tampa-fl-2015-8536b4
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
Tampa, FL logged 3 reports in the single month of October 2015.
In context
- One of 225 documented reports from Tampa, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 475 sightings in 2015.
- Chevron sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.1%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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