UFOMYST
CaseCigar1989

Richmond, VA, USA

Cigar shaped object hovered, moved slowly for a short distance, then disappeared in a moment.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-05-08
Where
Richmond, VA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
37.554, -77.460 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-richmond-va-1989-80791f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

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In context

  • Richmond, VA shows up 125 times across the archive.
  • 7 reports came from Virginia in 1989.
  • In the 1980s, 3.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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