Pasco County, FL, USA
Blue-green sphere seen at 8:00 position from the sun during sunset on 3/5/2016 . ((NUFORC Note: Lens flare in photo of Sun. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-03-05
- Where
- Pasco County, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- :45
- Geo
- 28.307, -82.439 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-pasco-county-fl-2016-94168e
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…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Pasco County, FL.
- This case is one of 365 Florida reports filed in 2016.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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