UFOMYST
CaseCigar2008

St. Petersburg, FL, USA

It just looks like it doesn`t belong there.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-17
Where
St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3 frames
Geo
27.771, -82.679 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-st-petersburg-fl-2008-7db313
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

  • One of 118 documented reports from St. Petersburg, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 303 sightings in 2008.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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