CaseCigar2020

Dunedin, FL, USA

White cigar shaped like the history channel F-18 incident. Zips around the sky and zooms off

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-12-18
Where
Dunedin, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
28.020, -82.773 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-dunedin-fl-2020-afad05
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…

In context

  • This is one of 22 reports logged in Dunedin, FL.
  • This case is one of 403 Florida reports filed in 2020.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.6% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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