UFOMYST
CaseCigar2009

In-flight sighting, USA

Object spotted at 3600 feet, followed but a military jet.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-03-19
Where
In-flight sighting, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
cigar-over-in-flight-sighting-2009-b0e460
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from In-flight sighting, USA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • USA logged 7 sightings in 2009.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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