UFOMYST
CaseFormation2017

Jacksonville, FL, USA

Very dark Gray craft heading west on a direct path. Object appeared to turn into 3 shapes and then back into one solid object again.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-06-01
Where
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
30.332, -81.656 · exact
Slug
formation-over-jacksonville-fl-2017-f1b5f7
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Jacksonville, FL in June 2017 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Jacksonville, FL has 256 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 334 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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