CaseCigar2022
Jacksonville Beach, FL, USA
3 Shapes high in sky with sphere further up
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-03-18
- Where
- Jacksonville Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5
- Geo
- 30.295, -81.393 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-jacksonville-beach-fl-2022-99ef77
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
- One of 25 documented reports from Jacksonville Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 105 sightings in 2022.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.