Jacksonville, FL, USA
A flash of light that went into a cresent shape before disappearing was seen heading south bound @10:03 pm approx 20 seconds later the
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-07
- Where
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 30.332, -81.656 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-jacksonville-fl-2013-45def7
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 7 Jacksonville, FL reports filed in December 2013.
In context
- Jacksonville, FL shows up 256 times across the archive.
- 543 reports came from Florida in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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