UFOMYST
CaseCigar2020

Essex, MD, no

It was as clear a sky as there can be,no clouds whatsoever. I just arrived at my destination to work. I got out the truck and looked up

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-11-07
Where
Essex, MD, no
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
39.309, -76.475 · fallback
Slug
cigar-over-essex-md-2020-87ab18
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 Essex, no in the UFOMYST archive.
  • no logged 1 sightings in 2020.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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