CaseUnknown1996
Bradenton, FL, USA
Woman, co-worker see very bright light to W over ocean. "Teardrop" shaped obj. drops from it, shoots off! Guards rept.radio static.
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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-04-09
- Where
- Bradenton, FL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 40 min.
- Geo
- 27.499, -82.575 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-bradenton-fl-1996-06bdaf
In context
- This is one of 74 reports logged in Bradenton, FL.
- This case is one of 50 Florida reports filed in 1996.
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.