UFOMYST
CaseCigar2012

Carlisle Cumbria (UK/England), United Kingdom

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Report quality: Moderate49/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-11
Where
Carlisle Cumbria (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
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Slug
cigar-over-carlisle-cumbria-uk-england-2012-d6e7d7
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Carlisle Cumbria (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 103 sightings in 2012.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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