UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2015

Tampa, FL, USA

Triangular shape. Dull red lights. I think 3 or more in rear and at least one forward as like a front of vehicle, no flashing lights.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-10-17
Where
Tampa, FL, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
27.948, -82.458 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-tampa-fl-2015-f1b2b3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

October 2015 was a busy month for Tampa, FL: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 225 reports logged in Tampa, FL.
  • This case is one of 475 Florida reports filed in 2015.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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