Tampa, FL, USA
Daytime bright white light with 'heat wave' aura around it, flutters near Tampa airport.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-04-06
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-tampa-fl-2016-981f75
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
- Tampa, FL shows up 225 times across the archive.
- 365 reports came from Florida in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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