UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

Deltona, FL, USA

Cigar shaped, light blue to white, with beam of same color light.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-01
Where
Deltona, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 to 10 minutes
Geo
28.901, -81.264 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-deltona-fl-1997-0dd6ba
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 41 documented reports from Deltona, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 51 sightings in 1997.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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