Clearwater, FL, USA
Extremely fast, bright cigar shaped object moving horizontally from south to north. Had a short light trail behind it.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-31
- Where
- Clearwater, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 27.966, -82.800 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-clearwater-fl-2021-113350
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
- Clearwater, FL has 69 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 218 reports from Florida.
- The 2020s skewed 2.6% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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