UFOMYST
CaseCigar2018

Salem, IN, USA

While I was driving, I notice 2 lines in the sky. Both had 4 bright lights. One was moving to my left and went over top of my car while

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-02-08
Where
Salem, IN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1 minute +
Geo
38.606, -86.101 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-salem-in-2018-8a666a
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

  • One of 4 documented reports from Salem, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 92 sightings in 2018.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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