Apalachicola, FL, USA
i don't know what shape it was, it looked sort of hour glass shape. it must have swayed for a moment because i saw a big flash of what
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-27
- Where
- Apalachicola, FL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2mins
- Geo
- 29.726, -84.986 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-apalachicola-fl-2008-b2b361
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
- Apalachicola, FL shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 303 reports came from Florida in 2008.
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.