UFOMYST
CaseCigar2008

Conneaut, OH, USA

UFO SPOTTED JULY,04,2008 IN CONNEAUT,OHIO ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax?? PD))

Report quality: Low2/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2008-07-04
Where
Conneaut, OH, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 second's
Geo
41.948, -80.554 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-conneaut-oh-2008-3a5b93
Wave

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  • 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

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in Conneaut, OH.
  • This case is one of 135 Ohio reports filed in 2008.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

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