CaseCigar2014

Buford, GA, USA

It appeared to be a plane but in the dark it was hard to tell. As it was flying very low while my kids were trick or treating, it could

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-10-31
Where
Buford, GA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
>1 minute
Geo
34.121, -84.004 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-buford-ga-2014-49c8d2
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

  • One of 21 documented reports from Buford, GA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Georgia logged 225 sightings in 2014.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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