UFOMYST
CaseCigar2014

Catasauqua, PA, USA

While driving west on Race Street in Catasauqua, i saw a bright orange, cigar shaped - looked like a short comet tail in the western sk

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-09-18
Where
Catasauqua, PA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
~20 minutes
Geo
40.655, -75.475 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-catasauqua-pa-2014-907df4
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…

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Catasauqua, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 382 sightings in 2014.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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