CaseCigar1994
Mercedes, TX, USA
ufo chased by fighter jet over Rio Grande Valley. Seen on news
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1994-10-10
- Where
- Mercedes, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 26.150, -97.914 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-mercedes-tx-1994-e7b35d
In context
- Mercedes, TX shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from Texas in 1994.
- In the 1990s, 2.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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