UFOMYST
CaseCigar2018

Clayton, NC, USA

Unusually long dark shape, moving very slow, no lights, no sound, at tree level.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-12-04
Where
Clayton, NC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
35.651, -78.456 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-clayton-nc-2018-c7c8a8
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Clayton, NC has 18 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 108 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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