Tampa, FL, USA
Apparently one dimensional grey rectangle floating low in sky in broad daylight, busy traffic, somewhat fluid looking. 500 Lights O
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-09-25
- Where
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 27.948, -82.458 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-tampa-fl-2010-244a1d
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.
- 221 reports came from Florida in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
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.