UFOMYST
CaseCigar2012

Corning, IA, USA

I was outside having a beer, and no I was not drunk. I was looking at the stars and saw three what I would describe as pen shaped objec

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-25
Where
Corning, IA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
40.990, -94.741 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-corning-ia-2012-d12383
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

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Corning, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 101 sightings in 2012.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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