CaseCigar2005

Vancouver (Canada), BC, Canada

Time I saw object: 19.04 Hours, September 7th 2005. I'm one of those unfortunates or fortunes to see many of these things in my li

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-07
Where
Vancouver (Canada), BC, Canada
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3 Minutes
Geo
49.250, -123.119 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-vancouver-canada-bc-2005-c648fb
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…

In context

  • Vancouver (Canada), Canada shows up 136 times across the archive.
  • 238 reports came from Canada in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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