UFOMYST
CaseCigar1989

Philadelphia, PA, USA

An object followed my car parallel to me then stopped when I stopped & observed me for 5 minutes.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-01-05
Where
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
39.952, -75.164 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-philadelphia-pa-1989-e35fc2
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Philadelphia, PA has 203 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 7 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 1980s skewed 3.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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