UFOMYST
CaseCigar2018

Rutland, VT, USA

Red and green lights hovering and disappearing

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-05-16
Where
Rutland, VT, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
43.611, -72.973 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-rutland-vt-2018-6f7408
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

  • Rutland, VT has 23 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 22 reports from Vermont.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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