UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

Rutherfordton, NC, USA

A cigar shaped craft with 2 6-ft tall beings obucted me and later crashed in the mountians of lake lure.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 25200s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-16
Where
Rutherfordton, NC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
7 hours
Geo
35.369, -81.957 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-rutherfordton-nc-1997-b94d7b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

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In context

  • Rutherfordton, NC shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 25 reports came from North Carolina in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 2.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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