UFOMYST
CaseDisk2004

Bradenton, FL, USA

2 rapid moving almond shaped discs initially heading east from the Gulf of Mexico and sharply turning south.

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-03-26
Where
Bradenton, FL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 - 4 mins.
Geo
27.499, -82.575 · exact
Slug
disk-over-bradenton-fl-2004-94a3f8
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Bradenton, FL in March 2004 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Bradenton, FL has 74 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 207 reports from Florida.
  • The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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