UFOMYST
CaseCigar2018

Maryville, TN, USA

Morning, in daylight, 3 cigar-shaped bright white silent crafts, slow moving; each seemed to be 2 sections

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-09-20
Where
Maryville, TN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
35.756, -83.970 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-maryville-tn-2018-1d6ea0
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 23 reports logged in Maryville, TN.
  • This case is one of 49 Tennessee reports filed in 2018.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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