UFOMYST
CaseCigar2021

Charlotte, NC, USA

flying stick, the ends of it brighter. Recorded event

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-12-18
Where
Charlotte, NC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
still active 12:35am
Geo
35.227, -80.843 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-charlotte-nc-2021-939a43
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

  • One of 231 documented reports from Charlotte, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 94 sightings in 2021.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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