CaseCylinder2020
Gulfport, MS, USA
White Tic-Tac object spotted over Gulfport, MS
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-10-20
- Where
- Gulfport, MS, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 30.367, -89.093 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-gulfport-ms-2020-ebc5a4
Wave
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
- Gulfport, MS has 38 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 27 reports from Mississippi.
- The 2020s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.