CaseCigar1999
Charlotte, NC, USA
Cigar shaped craft seen over my home town being chased by a formation of fighter pilots.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-10-17
- Where
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Geo
- 35.227, -80.843 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-charlotte-nc-1999-a9646b
In context
- Charlotte, NC has 231 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 53 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1990s skewed 2.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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