UFOMYST
CaseCigar1944

France, France

I was part of the 8th Air force during world war two. We where on a bombing mission in the early hours of the Normandy landings our tar

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1944-06-06
Where
France, France
Shape
Cigar
Duration
15-20 min
Geo
43.972, -111.275 · fallback
Slug
cigar-over-france-1944-4858b4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1944–1945

    The Foo Fighters

    European and Pacific theaters of WWII

    Allied (and, files later showed, Axis) aircrews reported glowing balls of light pacing their aircraft through evasive maneuvers. Each side suspected the other's secret weapon. The name came from the Smokey Stover comic…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from France, France in the UFOMYST archive.
  • France logged 1 sightings in 1944.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1940s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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