selected ufo cases
Cigar Shape
Cylinder-shaped object with dome flying low at night in Texas
October, 6, 2005 - Missouri City, Texas, United States
"I sprang to my feet out of astonishment in what I was seeing. It was an object, a ship like I had never seen passing throught the night sky almost directly over my adjacent neighors back yard only it was maybe four or six hundred feet high but was of a good size." "This object was... over 100 feet wide. It was a cigar shape... and it had a sphere in the middle of it protruding from the center top." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 609
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
Navy Veteran Observes Large Cigar-Shaped UFO in Exeter, NH
July, 20, 2005 - Exeter, New Hampshire, United States
There was something odd in the sky last week, something that caused a Navy veteran with 10,000 hours of flight experience to have his own close encounter. While preparing to mow his lawn, "David" saw a large cigar-shaped object hovering in the sky. He said it was about the size of two USS Nimitz aircraft carriers. View full report
Source: Exeter News-Letter (Exeter, New Hampshire), July 26, 2005 ID: 361
Case Type: PressReport Features: Portholes/Windows
Large cigar-shaped craft with horizontal line of multiple white lights
February, 7, 2005 - Syracuse, New York, United States
"We noticed a very large, brightly lit craft flying low above the tree line. It was flying extremely slow in a straight line from east to west. It continued low above the main street and suddenly stopped. It hovered for perhaps a minute or less, then seemed to change direction and slowly descend, from left to right, in a vertical slant." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 469
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
A close daytime sighting
August, 10, 2003 - Canyon Creek Subdivision, Yukon Territory, Canada
The witness was driving toward Whitehorse on the Alaska Highway just north-west of MacRae Subdivision when she spotted an object on Haeckel Hill. The object was cigar-shaped, no wings or markings and looked like the body of an aluminum airplane. View full report
Source: Investigated by Hans Grasholm (UFO*BC) ID: 350
Case Type: StandardCase
May, 27, 2003 - Phoenix, Arizona, United States
cigar shaped just hovering there - pinpoint lights alongside of it enough to show that it was a cigar shaped. At the ends of the cigar shaped object there were slightly larger red lights. It never moved, made noise, it just hung in there the whole time I watched it. Then suddenly it just took off upright toward the sky so fast and but it seemed like it just disappeared as it zoomed off. View full report
Source: NUFORC ID: 1
Case Type: RawReport
Enormous Cigar-Shaped UFO In Argentina
May, 1, 2002 - Cachi, Argentina
Three motorcyclists from Cachi saw 'an enormous cylinder measuring some 100 meters in length, shining like a mirror in the reflected light of the setting sun. It was shaped like a giant cigarette and flew slowly some 200 meters from the ground. View full report
Source: Scott Corrales, El Tribuno Digital (Argentina ID: 33
Case Type: PressReport
Oscillating, orange cigar-shape object mesmerizes two young brothers
January, 1997 - Crestview Subdivision, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
Two brothers age 11 and 13 were sitting in their living room. While watching television, something caught the attention of the younger gentleman's eye. He was shocked to see an orange cigar shape with a yellow centre as depicted by his drawing below. The edges were well defined and there was a soft orange glow emanating around the object. View full report
Source: Martin Jasek (Yukon Report) ID: 885
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Children, Witness Sketch
Giant UFO over the Yukon Gold Fields / Indian River
July, 1996 - Yukon Territory, Canada
Twin sisters saw a giant cigar-shaped UFO. It had a row of rectangular windows. Small lights were flying in and out of the large object. The UFO appeared to descent or disappear behind a mountain, or into the ground. Missing time occurred. View full report
Source: Investigated by Martin Jasek ID: 102
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Missing Time, Portholes/Windows, Witness Sketch
