UFOMYST
CaseCigar2016

Seattle, WA, USA

Cigar shape with wings, the wings were, one on top of the craft the other on the bottom. It looked on fire or all lit up.

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-13
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-seattle-wa-2016-e9aa21
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

  • One of 713 documented reports from Seattle, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 229 sightings in 2016.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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