CaseOther1999
Tampa, FL, USA
Went out to get paper and saw bright light in the sky. Looked like a huge plane exploding at first. Bright flames at rear bluish in c
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-07
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-tampa-fl-1999-3cedd2
In context
- This is one of 225 reports logged in Tampa, FL.
- This case is one of 109 Florida reports filed in 1999.
- Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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