CaseCigar1998
Kinston/Richlands (between; Rt. 258), NC, USA
Cigar-shaped craft, traveling over road in country, 200-300 ft. in the air. 200-300 mph, no wings, no markings, no sound. Silver.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-05-12
- Where
- Kinston/Richlands (between; Rt. 258), NC, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- few seconds
- Geo
- 35.263, -77.582 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-kinston-richlands-between-rt-258-nc-1998-bbd9bb
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Kinston/Richlands (between; Rt. 258), NC.
- This case is one of 40 North Carolina reports filed in 1998.
- Cigar craft made up 2.3% of 1990s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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