Shape Profile
Cigar Sightings
5,381 reports describe a cigar-shaped object — 2.51% of every sighting in the National UFO Reporting Center record.
Total reports
5,381
Share of all sightings
2.51%
Top state
CA
579 reports
Peak decade
2000s
2,010 reports
Trend by decade
are cigars rising?Top 10 states
geographic spreadLatest 20 cigar sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | State | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-30 | Ponte Vedra Beach | FL | low and slow | Saw two tictac shaped objects, silent from where I was, swimming backstroke. 3rd object came shortly after. |
| 2023-11-27 | Bandon | OR | 2 minutes | It almost collided with the Coast Gaurd Helicopter |
| 2023-11-14 | Chicago | IL | 20 mins | Saw two craft, one approaching from the SW and another about 1500 ft away relatively close to my building. |
| 2023-11-04 | Clayton | OK | 1 to 2 min. | While driving on 2 going I noticed a black line in the sky that I thought might be an eagle. No wings, head, tail. Black... |
| 2023-11-02 | Lemoyne | PA | about five to ten seconds | Saw a fast-moving, glowing white tic-tac shape in the sky |
| 2023-10-31 | Wethersfield | CT | One minute | Saw a fast moving object. |
| 2023-10-26 | Marshfield | MA | 20min before I had to go | Cigar shades, bright, white, or very white, standing perfectly still next to the line of Plane traffic |
| 2023-10-20 | Chubbuck | ID | 5 minutes | Hovering about mountain |
| 2023-10-13 | Cedar Park | TX | 1 to 2 minutes | Saw bright bar of light in sky |
| 2023-10-10 | Marietta | OH | 3 min | My wife and I saw lights in a craft coming out of a Mexican restaurant in Marietta Ohio. |
| 2023-10-10 | St. Charles | MO | Past 3 years | Prolonged abduction and monitoring |
| 2023-10-05 | Grand Canyon | AZ | Possibly 15 seconds | White cigar shaped traveling from north east to southwest straight line absolutely no sound |
| 2023-10-03 | Greensboro | NC | 20 seconds | White Cigar Shaped Craft |
| 2023-10-01 | Salt Lake City | UT | 4-5 minutes | A storm was coming in so the coloring of the sky was beautiful. I was at the front door looking at the sky when I... |
| 2023-09-17 | Fort Worth | TX | 5-10 minutes | A cigar shaped craft moved over the south end of the runway of Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth |
| 2023-09-14 | Patterson | NY | 20 seconds | Saw a cigar shaped object flying overhead had no wings and no audible sound |
| 2023-09-09 | Woodinville | WA | 20-25 seconds | Large cigar shaped object flying overhead, no sound. |
| 2023-09-04 | Lebanon | VA | 5 minutes | 1/2 mile wide or more. Clusters of lights moving northeast. No sound. Disappeared after 5 mins. Looked like a train. |
| 2023-09-04 | Salida | CO | 5 min | A string of lights approx. 15, traveling west to east at approx. 300 miles per hour. |
| 2023-09-03 | Louisburg | KS | 30 seconds to a minute | I spotted two objects flying fast in the same direction minutes apart. |