UFOMYST
CaseCigar2018

Fayetteville, NC, USA

Me and my children were heading to my moms house when something very silvery like aluminum like so shiny flew by in the sky went in a c

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-04-19
Where
Fayetteville, NC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
35.053, -78.878 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-fayetteville-nc-2018-1430ae
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…

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In context

  • One of 79 documented reports from Fayetteville, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 108 sightings in 2018.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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