Dade City, FL, USA
White-Green, Teardrop shaped light falling from the sky at approx 12:20 am in Dade City, FL. ((NUFORC Note: Meteor?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2010-06-25
- Where
- Dade City, FL, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- A few seconds
- Geo
- 28.365, -82.196 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-dade-city-fl-2010-ee53af
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
- One of 16 documented reports from Dade City, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 221 sightings in 2010.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
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