UFOMYST
CaseCigar2019

Smithsburg, MD, USA

It was cigar shaped approx 75 to 100 ft long silver in color no external fins altitude around 10 thousand feet clear sky and dayligh

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019
Where
Smithsburg, MD, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
39.655, -77.573 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-smithsburg-md-2019-30627d
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

  • Smithsburg, MD has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 70 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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