CaseCigar2004

Reading (UK/England), United Kingdom

Cigar shape. Same descriptions as Sighting made to you years ago only at that time being from England I put in a date that was 11/09/20

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-09-11
Where
Reading (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Cigar
Duration
8 minutes
Geo
51.456, -0.971 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-reading-uk-england-2004-3cf4fd
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…

In context

  • One of 12 documented reports from Reading (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 155 sightings in 2004.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.