CaseCircle2003
Tampa, FL, USA
A sighting of an apparent ball of flames turned into three smaller spheres... ((NUFORC Note: Titan 4 launch from Cape Canaveral. PD))
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-09-09
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-tampa-fl-2003-6a1c06
In context
- This is one of 225 reports logged in Tampa, FL.
- This case is one of 206 Florida reports filed in 2003.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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