Daytona Beach, FL, USA
05:30, woke up, looked out my 10th flr. apt door, on D.B.,FL. saw this Tubular object slowly floating above the Atlantic.
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-20
- Where
- Daytona Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 29.211, -81.023 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-daytona-beach-fl-2015-1bce43
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…
In context
- One of 50 documented reports from Daytona Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 475 sightings in 2015.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).
Report
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