UFOMYST
CaseCigar2004

Midwest U. S. (in-flight), USA

strangest damn things I ever saw.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-01-23
Where
Midwest U. S. (in-flight), USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
cigar-over-midwest-u-s-in-flight-2004-10b380
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Midwest U. S. (in-flight), USA.
  • This case is one of 7 USA reports filed in 2004.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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