Placida, FL, USA
Cigar-shaped glowing orange object silently moving steadily from south to north 100 yds away, suddenly disappears seen by six adults.
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 (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-01-01
- Where
- Placida, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 minutes
- Geo
- 26.832, -82.265 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-placida-fl-2017-fae45d
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…
In context
- Placida, FL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 334 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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