CaseCigar2018

Grantwood village, MO, USA

I thought it was a plane due to alot passing but upon further watching, it came from the east and had what looked like short clouds beh

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-07-18
Where
Grantwood village, MO, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
38.550, -90.355 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-grantwood-village-mo-2018-be2fbf
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…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Grantwood village, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Missouri logged 62 sightings in 2018.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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