Jacksonville, FL, USA
I saw 3 cylindrical objects flying past our Jet Blue flight as we were approaching the airport. ((NUFORC Note: Witness is pilot. PD)
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-09-06
- Where
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 10-15 seconds
- Geo
- 30.332, -81.656 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-jacksonville-fl-2021-f1f334
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
- Jacksonville, FL shows up 256 times across the archive.
- 218 reports came from Florida in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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