CaseCigar2004
Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada
Bright elongated object traverses sky
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-15
- Where
- Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 45.411, -75.698 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-ottawa-canada-on-2004-62e737
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Ottawa (Canada), Canada shows up 123 times across the archive.
- 362 reports came from Canada in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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