Port St. Lucie, FL, USA
Long, silver object leaving an exhaust or debris trail. ((NUFORC Note: Possible high-alt. aircraft?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-08-03
- Where
- Port St. Lucie, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 27.294, -80.350 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-port-st-lucie-fl-2012-c5a6fb
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
- One of 94 documented reports from Port St. Lucie, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 459 sightings in 2012.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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