UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2012

Venice, FL, USA

3 shiny cylindrical objects, 5 secs apart, flying N>S, over the Gulf of Mexico near Venice, Fl.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-30
Where
Venice, FL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
less than one minute
Geo
27.100, -82.454 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-venice-fl-2012-e9dd5a
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 40 documented reports from Venice, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 459 sightings in 2012.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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