CaseCylinder2021
Jacksonville, FL, USA
2 white objects in the sky smooth looked like tic tac
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-10-20
- Where
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 30.332, -81.656 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-jacksonville-fl-2021-590270
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
- This is one of 256 reports logged in Jacksonville, FL.
- This case is one of 218 Florida reports filed in 2021.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2020s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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