CaseOval2002
Anna Maria Island, FL, USA
UFO "plays" with thunderstorm over Gulf of Mexico
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 3150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-18
- Where
- Anna Maria Island, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 45-60 min.
- Geo
- 27.514, -82.719 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-anna-maria-island-fl-2002-8cf731
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Anna Maria Island, FL.
- This case is one of 154 Florida reports filed in 2002.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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