CaseCylinder2004

St. Augustine, FL, USA

Large gray cylinder hovering just above tree tops

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-09-04
Where
St. Augustine, FL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
6 seconds
Geo
29.895, -81.315 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-st-augustine-fl-2004-36185f
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…

In context

  • St. Augustine, FL has 80 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 207 reports from Florida.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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