CaseCone2015

Bradenton, FL, USA

It appeared out of no where about 100ft up and it moved slowly panning its red light back and forth then shut its light out. no sound

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-09-12
Where
Bradenton, FL, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
27.499, -82.575 · exact
Slug
cone-over-bradenton-fl-2015-b7fc32
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

  • This is one of 74 reports logged in Bradenton, FL.
  • This case is one of 475 Florida reports filed in 2015.
  • Cone craft made up 0.4% of 2010s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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