CaseCigar2016
Gulf of Mexico, FL, USA
Cigar-shaped UFO passes closely by my plane over Gulf of Mexico.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-05-11
- Where
- Gulf of Mexico, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5-10 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cigar-over-gulf-of-mexico-fl-2016-a69752
Wave
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
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Gulf of Mexico, FL.
- This case is one of 365 Florida reports filed in 2016.
- Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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