CaseCigar2004
Cancun (Mexico), Mexico
A huge object off the coast of Cancun, Mexico
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-24
- Where
- Cancun (Mexico), Mexico
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- approx. 30sec
- Geo
- 21.174, -86.847 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-cancun-mexico-2004-334f24
Wave
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
- Cancun (Mexico), Mexico shows up 25 times across the archive.
- 32 reports came from Mexico in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.