UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

Micanopy, FL, USA

Cigar shaped craft with backlit portholes

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-01
Where
Micanopy, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
29.505, -82.280 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-micanopy-fl-1997-997bb7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Micanopy, FL has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 51 reports from Florida.
  • The 1990s skewed 2.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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