UFOMYST
CaseCigar1989

Hampton, VA, USA

thrilling & terrifying.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (23 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-10-15
Where
Hampton, VA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 min
Geo
37.030, -76.345 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-hampton-va-1989-151ae1
Wave

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In context

  • One of 37 documented reports from Hampton, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 7 sightings in 1989.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 3.9% during the 1980s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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