UFOMYST
CaseCigar2004

Punta Gorda (near) (I-75; near Kings Highway Exit), FL, USA

Large, "plane-like" object seen in the morning sky.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-15
Where
Punta Gorda (near) (I-75; near Kings Highway Exit), FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
26.930, -82.045 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-punta-gorda-near-i-75-near-kings-highway-exit-fl-2004-95eec7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Punta Gorda (near) (I-75; near Kings Highway Exit), FL.
  • This case is one of 207 Florida reports filed in 2004.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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