UFOMYST
CaseCigar2016

Richmond, KY, USA

Clear, bright morning, 11:05 am, saw a pure white cylinder-shaped object in the sky above the tree lines, sailing fast. No wings.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-06-14
Where
Richmond, KY, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
~2 minutes
Geo
37.748, -84.295 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-richmond-ky-2016-d83e9c
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

  • Richmond, KY has 33 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 54 reports from Kentucky.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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