UFOMYST
CaseCigar2018

Newport, USA

Metallic cigar-shaped obj. ((anonymous report)) ((NUFORC Note: No photo forwarded. State not indicated by witness. PD))

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-05-28
Where
Newport, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
seconds
Geo
41.490, -71.313 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-newport-2018-aee519
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Newport, USA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • USA logged 14 sightings in 2018.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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