Tampa, FL, USA
Odd football shaped object seen from Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa, traveling near airliner.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-05-06
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- few seconds
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-tampa-fl-2015-38606b
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Tampa, FL reports filed in May 2015.
In context
- Tampa, FL shows up 225 times across the archive.
- 475 reports came from Florida in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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