CaseDisk1979
Tampa, FL, USA
Tampa, Fl. 7/5/79, Saucer shape object lit from underneath moving west toward the international airport or Tampa bay.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-07-05
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-tampa-fl-1979-1cbf0c
In context
- This is one of 225 reports logged in Tampa, FL.
- This case is one of 11 Florida reports filed in 1979.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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.