UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

Bristol, VA, USA

Cigar shaped object and dual lights turing and disappearing over horizon at extreme altitude

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-28
Where
Bristol, VA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
36.596, -82.188 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-bristol-va-1997-0cba71
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Bristol, VA shows up 17 times across the archive.
  • 23 reports came from Virginia in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 2.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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