Light over Tampa Bay, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
After hovering for around a minute it descends, South and in Elevation, along the same path. Video exists of it doing this twice but it followed the same path at least 5 times. I'm not sure what it was but as former military who has seen combat I know that only a drone could achieve the maneuvers witnessed and yet no drone would move this fast while being large enough to put off such bright light. It was definitely not anything the Air Force is known to possess or operate, yet it did seem to originate as well as return to Macdill (the view we had made it unclear whether it was landing, but if it did the trajectory would have put it on the base - we had an apartment complex blocking our view of MacDill). Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #135071). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-05-08 → 2014-05-25
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