UFOMYST
CaseCigar2016

Ash, NC, USA

Smaller aircraft which had no noise with rotating white lights, accompanied but super large area of twinkling smaller lights.

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 (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-18
Where
Ash, NC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
34.067, -78.526 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-ash-nc-2016-7abef8
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

  • Ash, NC shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 219 reports came from North Carolina in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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