Bradenton, FL, USA
Circular red light with red orbs of light within it.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-14
- Where
- Bradenton, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 27.499, -82.575 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-bradenton-fl-2016-73646d
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
September 2016 was a busy month for Bradenton, FL: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 74 reports logged in Bradenton, FL.
- This case is one of 365 Florida reports filed in 2016.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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