Palm Harbor, FL, USA
Slow moving large, white cylinder observed during morning commute, reflecting brightly in sun.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-04-17
- Where
- Palm Harbor, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 28.078, -82.764 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-palm-harbor-fl-2012-c67d1b
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…
In context
- Palm Harbor, FL shows up 26 times across the archive.
- 459 reports came from Florida in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.