CaseCigar2017

San Antonio, FL, USA

Strange object immerges from dark portal and streaks across sky ahead of oncoming storm and disappears into another dark portal.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-22
Where
San Antonio, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
seconds
Geo
28.336, -82.275 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-san-antonio-fl-2017-8b42a3
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…

In context

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in San Antonio, FL.
  • This case is one of 334 Florida reports filed in 2017.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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