UFOMYST
CaseCigar2021

Rutherford County, TN, USA

Observed a bright object next to the moon against a clear blue morning sky. Not a single cloud, jet trail, plane, nothing in the sky. N

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-09-23
Where
Rutherford County, TN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
35.843, -86.417 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-rutherford-county-tn-2021-487087
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Rutherford County, TN.
  • This case is one of 49 Tennessee reports filed in 2021.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.6% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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