CaseCigar2007

Rock Hill, SC, USA

Bright silver cigar-shaped object, about 100 feet long, moving noiselessly to the north on a clear day at 1,000 feet altitude.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-02-01
Where
Rock Hill, SC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 secs
Geo
34.925, -81.025 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-rock-hill-sc-2007-0e331e
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

  • Rock Hill, SC shows up 34 times across the archive.
  • 78 reports came from South Carolina in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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