CaseOval2008

Gulf Breeze, FL, USA

I am a Battalion Chief with the fire department. I was on duty standing behind one of our stations talking to three other firefighters.

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-05-17
Where
Gulf Breeze, FL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
30.357, -87.164 · exact
Slug
oval-over-gulf-breeze-fl-2008-c44165
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

  • Gulf Breeze, FL has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 303 reports from Florida.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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