CaseCigar2009
West Chester, PA, USA
My last sighting was not a hoax.
Report quality: Low28/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2009-04-22
- Where
- West Chester, PA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.961, -75.608 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-west-chester-pa-2009-2940df
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- One of 38 documented reports from West Chester, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 166 sightings in 2009.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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