UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Palm Harbor, FL, USA

((HOAX??)) It was a fireball shape. It was very quiet but had a faint burning sound. It was very meticulous looking.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2012-06-20
Where
Palm Harbor, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
28.078, -82.764 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-palm-harbor-fl-2012-6cb85a
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…

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In context

  • Palm Harbor, FL shows up 26 times across the archive.
  • 459 reports came from Florida in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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