UFOMYST
CaseCigar2008

Lumberton, NC, USA

I was taking a walk when i looked up to see a shiny bolt, which was no airplane.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-20
Where
Lumberton, NC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 Seconds
Geo
34.618, -79.010 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-lumberton-nc-2008-1261ba
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

  • This is one of 8 reports logged in Lumberton, NC.
  • This case is one of 133 North Carolina reports filed in 2008.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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