UFOMYST
CaseCigar2004

Blackburn (UK/England), United Kingdom

Cigar/Rod shaped object rotating silently in the sky

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-02-23
Where
Blackburn (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 mins
Geo
53.750, -2.483 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-blackburn-uk-england-2004-b1f201
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Blackburn (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 155 reports came from United Kingdom in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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