West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Very small cigar shape - disappeared seconds after sunlight reflected off of it..
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-05-10
- Where
- West Palm Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5-10 seconds
- Geo
- 26.715, -80.053 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-west-palm-beach-fl-2016-7b6c49
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
- West Palm Beach, FL shows up 86 times across the archive.
- 365 reports came from Florida in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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