CaseCigar2020

NM, USA

3 People in 2 states witness flying cigar, disc and triangular shaped objects across sky. ((Starlink satellites?))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-15
Where
NM, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 hour
Geo
Slug
cigar-over-nm-2020-7948ae
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 case is one of 82 New Mexico reports filed in 2020.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.6% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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