CaseCigar1988
Dolly Sods Wilderness Area, WV, USA
Witnessed "military"; C-130 releasing dozens of parachutists to meet with cigar-shaped UFO.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-09-09
- Where
- Dolly Sods Wilderness Area, WV, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cigar-over-dolly-sods-wilderness-area-wv-1988-301ae8
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Dolly Sods Wilderness Area, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
- West Virginia logged 3 sightings in 1988.
- Cigar sightings ran at 3.9% during the 1980s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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