CaseCigar2006

Merida (Mexico), Mexico

The object fly in to W-NW direction. The object changed by red-blue colors. The object appear in the sky and desappear in 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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-05-09
Where
Merida (Mexico), Mexico
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
20.967, -89.623 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-merida-mexico-2006-2b1117
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

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Merida (Mexico), Mexico.
  • This case is one of 23 Mexico reports filed in 2006.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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