UFOMYST
CaseOval2020

In flight between Tampa and Newark, USA

Airline passenger witnesses tic tac shaped object with exhaust plume traveling west above 39,000 feet.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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  • Duration parsed: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-10
Where
In flight between Tampa and Newark, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10-15 seconds
Geo
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Slug
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  • 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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from In flight between Tampa and Newark, USA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • USA logged 36 sightings in 2020.
  • Oval sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2020s (archive average: 4.3%).

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