Bradenton, FL, USA
Bright orange triangle shaped lights over Bradenton, Florida
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-12-25
- Where
- Bradenton, FL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 27.499, -82.575 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-bradenton-fl-2011-c17cfb
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
Bradenton, FL logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2011.
In context
- One of 74 documented reports from Bradenton, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 338 sightings in 2011.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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