Sarasota, FL, USA
((HOAX??)) Spotted hovering for a long period of time over Bradenton Sarasota airport.
Report quality: Low31/100
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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2007-03-28
- Where
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 40 Minutes
- Geo
- 27.336, -82.531 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-sarasota-fl-2007-61ec2b
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
- Sarasota, FL has 130 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 264 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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