CaseCigar2008

Medi, PA, USA

was faceing west at a red light. cigar shaped craft moving north to south at incredible speed, 800+ easy,visable for only 7 seconds

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-07
Where
Medi, PA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
45.643, -0.965 · fallback
Slug
cigar-over-medi-pa-2008-3a725f
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…

In context

  • Medi, PA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 193 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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