CaseCigar2009
Largo, FL, USA
Fast moving object with cyclic whistling noise.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-17
- Where
- Largo, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 27.910, -82.788 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-largo-fl-2009-06fd35
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
- Largo, FL has 59 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 254 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 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.