UFOMYST
CaseCigar2018

Knox, IN, USA

Looking north while fishing from south shore of a local lake I saw a white cigar shaped object floating E. To W.. suddenly, another one

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-18
Where
Knox, IN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
41.296, -86.625 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-knox-in-2018-a1d705
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 6 documented reports from Knox, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 92 sightings in 2018.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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