UFOMYST
CaseCigar2016

Dayton, TN, USA

I saw a bright green, cigar-shaped object streak across the sky and veer off course.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-14
Where
Dayton, TN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
35.494, -85.012 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-dayton-tn-2016-48fbb2
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

  • Dayton, TN has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 114 reports from Tennessee.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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