CaseLight1999
Longboat Key, FL, USA
Pulsing light over the Gulf of Mexico changing color, frequency, and intensity moved in an erratic pattern across the clear sky. The m
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.
- Duration parsed: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-01-09
- Where
- Longboat Key, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 6 minutes
- Geo
- 27.413, -82.659 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-longboat-key-fl-1999-dce9ae
In context
- Longboat Key, FL shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 109 reports came from Florida in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.