Tampa, FL, USA
Circular orb stationary for 7 minutes over Robles park. 1.5 miles from observer. I got 3 good photos I zoom and 1 out & 1 shootinout
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-10-03
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 12 minutes
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-tampa-fl-2015-9a627f
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…
Local cluster
October 2015 was a busy month for Tampa, FL: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 225 reports logged in Tampa, FL.
- This case is one of 475 Florida reports filed in 2015.
- 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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