Jacksonville, FL, USA
White red ball above nas Jacksonville
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-05
- Where
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 30.332, -81.656 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-jacksonville-fl-2020-40c3b6
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Jacksonville, FL in February 2020 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Jacksonville, FL has 256 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 403 reports from Florida.
- The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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