Jacksonville, FL, USA
Craft was flying at about 2500 feet shaped like a chevron with 7 dome lights on the bottom. The craft was almost translucent and the 7
Report quality: High73/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-14
- Where
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 30.332, -81.656 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-jacksonville-fl-2017-ed251e
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Jacksonville, FL reports filed in October 2017.
In context
- Jacksonville, FL shows up 256 times across the archive.
- 334 reports came from Florida in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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