Bradenton, FL, USA
Seen four orange balls following each other in a row rising higher and higher into the sky
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-04
- Where
- Bradenton, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 27.499, -82.575 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bradenton-fl-2011-42cf51
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
- One of 74 documented reports from Bradenton, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 338 sightings in 2011.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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