UFOMYST
CaseCigar1973

Charles City Co./Henrico (between; on Rt. 5), VA, USA

A report from Charles City County, VA in August 1973 described a large, gray, cigar-shaped object with an illuminated porthole and two bright lights on its underside, lasting 5 minutes.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (185 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-08-02
Where
Charles City Co./Henrico (between; on Rt. 5), VA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 min.
Geo
36.593, -78.616 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-charles-city-co-henrico-between-on-rt-5-va-1973-a211fa
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Charles City Co./Henrico (between; on Rt. 5), VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 5 sightings in 1973.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 5.2% during the 1970s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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