UFOMYST
CaseCigar2015

Scranton, PA, USA

I noticed an object in the sky that looked very similar to a dirigible, or so called cigar-shaped UFO.

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-09-11
Where
Scranton, PA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
41.409, -75.665 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-scranton-pa-2015-c29fb1
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Scranton, PA shows up 17 times across the archive.
  • 244 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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