CaseUnknown2017

Gainesville, FL, USA

((NUFORC Note: Witness provides very little data. We have requested a thorough report from him. PD))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • No witness text on file
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-09-04
Where
Gainesville, FL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
29.652, -82.325 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-gainesville-fl-2017-f85fd2
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 71 reports logged in Gainesville, FL.
  • This case is one of 334 Florida reports filed in 2017.

Report

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