UFOMYST
CaseCigar2014

Port Arthur, TX, USA

Numerous rocket shaped objects sighted in the sky higher than cruising altitude of airliners.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-04-20
Where
Port Arthur, TX, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
29.885, -93.942 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-port-arthur-tx-2014-8fd3dc
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…

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In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Port Arthur, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 309 sightings in 2014.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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