UFOMYST
CaseCigar2021

Troutman, NC, USA

Driving down road, UFO passes overhead flying at 125 yards. And disappeared into the clouds.

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-03-28
Where
Troutman, NC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
4-5 seconds
Geo
35.701, -80.888 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-troutman-nc-2021-ac65ac
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

  • One of 4 documented reports from Troutman, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 94 sightings in 2021.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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