CaseCircle1999
Tampa, FL, USA
Traveling across Gandy bridge, saw silver saucer shape trailing right behind a jet approaching Tampa In'tl. airpt. I noticed because th
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-10-05
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 4 minutes +
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-tampa-fl-1999-8ee9a5
In context
- Tampa, FL has 225 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 109 reports from Florida.
- The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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