CaseCigar2022

Jacksonville, FL, USA

Could see a cigar shaped object behind and then over taking an airliner very high up in the sky.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-03-30
Where
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
About 20 seconds
Geo
30.332, -81.656 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-jacksonville-fl-2022-9bf7eb
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Jacksonville, FL in March 2022 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Jacksonville, FL has 256 sightings on file here.
  • 2022 brought 105 reports from Florida.
  • The 2020s skewed 2.6% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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