CaseCigar2010

Culpeper County, VA, USA

Orange, 3 lights with smaller lights frlying from and returning to it.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-06-29
Where
Culpeper County, VA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1:05
Geo
38.486, -77.956 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-culpeper-county-va-2010-f5fead
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…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Culpeper County, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 78 sightings in 2010.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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