UFOMYST
CaseCigar2011

Key West, FL, USA

While swimming in our pool, over our heads at about 60 degrees towards north heading dead west a red and white oscillating strobe light

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-23
Where
Key West, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
24.555, -81.782 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-key-west-fl-2011-b5b692
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

  • Key West, FL has 25 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 338 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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