CaseCigar1999
Wachapreague, VA, USA
Orange cigar shaped light about one thousand feet in the sky. Disappeared and then came returned about five minutes later.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-07-04
- Where
- Wachapreague, VA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 37.604, -75.690 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-wachapreague-va-1999-a7c1e6
In context
- Wachapreague, VA has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 38 reports from Virginia.
- The 1990s skewed 2.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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