UFOMYST
CaseCigar2004

Rubery (UK/England), United Kingdom

A long black shape which appeared to be changing shape as it drifted high in the direction of a slight breeze.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-04-08
Where
Rubery (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Cigar
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
52.400, -2.017 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-rubery-uk-england-2004-3362cf
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

  • Rubery (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 155 reports came from United Kingdom in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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