UFOMYST
CaseOval1997

Clearwater Beach, FL, USA

UFO encounter at Clearwater Beach, during meteor shower

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-05
Where
Clearwater Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
30 min
Geo
27.977, -82.828 · exact
Slug
oval-over-clearwater-beach-fl-1997-dad78e
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Clearwater Beach, FL shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 51 reports came from Florida in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 3.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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