Offshore/West Coast, FL, USA
this was seen by 6 other person"s aboard a fishing charther boat,and maybe one of the deck hands,most of the other fisherman were in th
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-02
- Where
- Offshore/West Coast, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 1.317, 103.750 · fallback
- Slug
- cigar-over-offshore-west-coast-fl-2005-31cea9
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 1 reports logged in Offshore/West Coast, FL.
- This case is one of 244 Florida reports filed in 2005.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
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.