CaseCigar1998
Ocala, FL, USA
Cigar shaped UFO turns at 60 degree angle and disappears in to upper sky in a nano (0.001) seconds without any sound.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-05-01
- Where
- Ocala, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 29.187, -82.140 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-ocala-fl-1998-825cb3
In context
- Ocala, FL shows up 79 times across the archive.
- 107 reports came from Florida in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 2.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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