CaseCircle2005

St. Petersburg, FL, USA

Grey circle gliding in the sky

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (30 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-05-27
Where
St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
27.771, -82.679 · exact
Slug
circle-over-st-petersburg-fl-2005-acc68c
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…

In context

  • St. Petersburg, FL has 118 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 244 reports from Florida.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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