UFOMYST
CaseCigar2021

Tampa, FL, USA

On the day after Christmas, on a clear sunny day, with sunroof open while stopped at a major intersection, I saw a shiny object.

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-12-26
Where
Tampa, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
Roughly 7 seconds
Geo
27.948, -82.458 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-tampa-fl-2021-923462
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

  • Tampa, FL shows up 225 times across the archive.
  • 218 reports came from Florida in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 2.6% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

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.