UFOMYST
CaseCigar2020

Storrs, CT, USA

In Storrs, CT, saw a cigar shaped object flying rapidly after hovering for a brief second on my iPhone footage of the rain clouds.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-09-03
Where
Storrs, CT, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
Seconds
Geo
41.808, -72.250 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-storrs-ct-2020-2d9150
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 Storrs, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Connecticut logged 130 sightings in 2020.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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