UFOMYST
CaseLight2018

Pensacola, FL, USA

Strange light slowly moving in the night sky. Shortly after, a helicopter and what looked like air Force aircraft ((anonymous report))

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-02
Where
Pensacola, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
30.421, -87.217 · exact
Slug
light-over-pensacola-fl-2018-6070ae
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Pensacola, FL has 91 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 226 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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