CaseOval1970
Tampa, FL, USA
Two orange, luminous oval objects were seen moving side by side in a zigzag pattern at high speed over Tampa, Florida, in May 1970, within about three seconds.
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (159 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-05-18
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-tampa-fl-1970-ff6c32
In context
- Tampa, FL has 225 sightings on file here.
- 1970 brought 12 reports from Florida.
- The 1970s skewed 6.9% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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