UFOMYST
CaseCigar2015

St. Petersburg Beach, FL, USA

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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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2015-08-26
Where
St. Petersburg Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
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Slug
cigar-over-st-petersburg-beach-fl-2015-27bba5
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

  • One of 12 documented reports from St. Petersburg Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 475 sightings in 2015.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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