Anna Maria Island, FL, USA
Yellow/orange bright light observed from Anna Maria Island for about 3 minutes
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-06-22
- Where
- Anna Maria Island, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 27.514, -82.719 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-anna-maria-island-fl-2012-4899c4
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Anna Maria Island, FL.
- This case is one of 459 Florida reports filed in 2012.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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