CaseLight2019

Tampa, FL, USA

Bright as a planet with a dark orange glow. Traveling West to East, high in the night sky than disappeared.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-08-04
Where
Tampa, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
60 seconds
Geo
27.948, -82.458 · exact
Slug
light-over-tampa-fl-2019-c8ac25
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…

In context

  • This is one of 225 reports logged in Tampa, FL.
  • This case is one of 413 Florida reports filed in 2019.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

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.