Madeira Beach, FL, USA
I was walking at approximately 6:45pm on 11/15/2017 after dark in the south direction on Madeira Beach off of 140th Avenue. I noticed
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-11-15
- Where
- Madeira Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 27.798, -82.797 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-madeira-beach-fl-2017-f071af
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
- Madeira Beach, FL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 334 reports came from Florida in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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