St. Augustine, FL, USA
Black sphere flying in weird directions went behind a tree, then seen a blimp shaped object jet off.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-06-05
- Where
- St. Augustine, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 29.895, -81.315 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-st-augustine-fl-2011-84d94d
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 St. Augustine, FL reports filed in June 2011.
In context
- St. Augustine, FL shows up 80 times across the archive.
- 338 reports came from Florida in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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