Floral City, FL, USA
((NUFORC Note: Missile launch at 2055 hrs (EDT). PD)) Triangular object traveling fast towards Tampa
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: 28s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 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
- 2005-04-29
- Where
- Floral City, FL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 25-30 seconds
- Geo
- 28.750, -82.297 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-floral-city-fl-2005-0bdc07
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
- Floral City, FL shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 244 reports came from Florida in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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