CaseLight2022

Tampa, FL, USA

Spotted while taking photos of space x launch

Report quality: Moderate52/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2022-05-06
Where
Tampa, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
Captured in photo
Geo
27.948, -82.458 · exact
Slug
light-over-tampa-fl-2022-eb2b92
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

  • Tampa, FL has 225 sightings on file here.
  • 2022 brought 105 reports from Florida.
  • The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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