UFOMYST
CaseOval2009

Punta Gorda, FL, USA

bright red foating in space then moved side to side in mile a sec and up and down no sound with pics

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: 70s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-06-11
Where
Punta Gorda, FL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
70sec
Geo
26.930, -82.045 · exact
Slug
oval-over-punta-gorda-fl-2009-39a7e5
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…

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In context

  • One of 27 documented reports from Punta Gorda, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 254 sightings in 2009.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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