Venice, FL, USA
We were scanning the night sky observing the Easter Moon. The Moonrise was I the East sky. Scanning to the Southwest toward Venus a
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-07
- Where
- Venice, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1.5 minutes
- Geo
- 27.100, -82.454 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-venice-fl-2020-6dfc1c
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
- Venice, FL has 40 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 403 reports from Florida.
- The 2020s skewed 3.5% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.