UFOMYST
CaseCigar2005

Charlotte, NC, USA

Cigar shaped object observered in daytime traveling at a high rate of speed at high 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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-02-10
Where
Charlotte, NC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
15 sec
Geo
35.227, -80.843 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-charlotte-nc-2005-012e6a
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 231 documented reports from Charlotte, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 106 sightings in 2005.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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