Pinellas, FL, USA
Heading home to to the east bright fiery/orange light then dimmed to small white ball moved further and further. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Low39/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-02-21
- Where
- Pinellas, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- —
- Geo
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- Slug
- light-over-pinellas-fl-2018-9b1275
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
- Pinellas, FL shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 226 reports came from Florida in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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