UFOMYST
CaseCigar2009

Tampa, FL, USA

Fighter jets circled the object

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-06
Where
Tampa, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 min
Geo
27.948, -82.458 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-tampa-fl-2009-a4190f
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 225 documented reports from Tampa, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 254 sightings in 2009.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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