CaseCigar2011

Brooksville, FL, USA

Cigar-shaped with orange and green glow all thru out the shape sped along across the dusk sky at a fast speed then slowed down a bit th

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-03
Where
Brooksville, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3 min
Geo
28.556, -82.390 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-brooksville-fl-2011-7fdd9b
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…

In context

  • Brooksville, FL shows up 31 times across the archive.
  • 338 reports came from Florida in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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