UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

Foster, VA, USA

From Halle-Bopp's distance, a huge ship sped into the atmosphere, slowed silently and closely overhead, and zoomed back into space.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-01
Where
Foster, VA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
37.453, -76.385 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-foster-va-1997-1f4a2b
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Foster, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 23 sightings in 1997.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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