UFOMYST
CaseOval2008

Sorrento, FL, USA

Object moved faster than a blimp but slower than a helicopter and hovered from time to time changing diercetion.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-30
Where
Sorrento, FL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
0.0800
Geo
28.808, -81.564 · exact
Slug
oval-over-sorrento-fl-2008-ddc76f
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

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Sorrento, FL.
  • This case is one of 303 Florida reports filed in 2008.
  • Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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