Atlantic Ocean, Mid-Atlantic Ocean
3 unusual, brightly lit craft seen to be using cloud as cover in mid-Atlantic.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-18
- Where
- Atlantic Ocean, Mid-Atlantic Ocean
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cigar-over-atlantic-ocean-2009-83dcd2
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…
In context
- Atlantic Ocean, Mid-Atlantic Ocean has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 1 reports from Mid-Atlantic Ocean.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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