CaseTeardrop2017

St. Augustine, FL, USA

Craft above bay front then vanishes.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-04
Where
St. Augustine, FL, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
29.895, -81.315 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-st-augustine-fl-2017-62951d
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

  • This is one of 80 reports logged in St. Augustine, FL.
  • This case is one of 334 Florida reports filed in 2017.
  • Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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