CaseLight1986
Tampa, FL, USA
i was looking up at 12 oclock, with city light polution around, saw star sized lite going s. for aprox. 7 sec. 90 to lft. 3sec. n. 4se
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: 17s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-06-29
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 17 sec.
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tampa-fl-1986-ef1d1e
In context
- Tampa, FL shows up 225 times across the archive.
- 12 reports came from Florida in 1986.
- In the 1980s, 11% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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