Jacksonville Beach, FL, USA
Glowing cigar shaped object creates intense glow in sky and move across ocean.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-18
- Where
- Jacksonville Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 30.295, -81.393 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-jacksonville-beach-fl-2009-271fe3
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
- One of 25 documented reports from Jacksonville Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 254 sightings in 2009.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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