UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

Sorrento, FL, USA

A cigar shaped craft with lights floated about 250 yards in front of us and made no sound.

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 (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-15
Where
Sorrento, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3 to 5 mins
Geo
28.808, -81.564 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-sorrento-fl-1997-87694a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

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    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Sorrento, FL shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 51 reports came from Florida in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 2.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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