UFOMYST
CaseCigar2020

Bradenton, FL, USA

I was standing outside of the trailer smoking a cigarette. I heard a helicopter lying around. I walked out from under the overhang of m

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-09-19
Where
Bradenton, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1 minute
Geo
27.499, -82.575 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-bradenton-fl-2020-a0c3ab
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…

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In context

  • One of 74 documented reports from Bradenton, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 403 sightings in 2020.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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