Fernandina Beach, FL, USA
cigar shaped 8:PM May 28,08 North of Jacksonville Fl.going north, disappeared in a flash, no clouds.bigger than the jet near by.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-05-28
- Where
- Fernandina Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 4 min.
- Geo
- 30.670, -81.463 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-fernandina-beach-fl-2008-693c0b
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
- Fernandina Beach, FL shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 303 reports came from Florida in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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