UFOMYST
CaseCigar2016

Shelbyville, IL, USA

I seen a silver looking cigar shaped craft flying with no contrail intersect under a jet flying with a contrail.

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-05-05
Where
Shelbyville, IL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
39.406, -88.790 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-shelbyville-il-2016-4271d2
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 6 reports logged in Shelbyville, IL.
  • This case is one of 156 Illinois reports filed in 2016.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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