UFO SIGHTINGS // CIGAR

7CASES

Documented sightings reporting a cigar-shaped craft.

1977United Kingdom7/10

Broad Haven Triangle

Fourteen schoolchildren and dozens of adults reported UFOs and humanoid figures across Pembrokeshire, Wales, creating the 'Welsh Triangle' phenomenon.

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1973United States9/10

Coyne Helicopter Incident

A US Army helicopter was pulled upward 2,100 feet by an unknown force while a cigar-shaped object bathed it in a green beam, confirmed by ground witnesses.

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1948United States8/10

Chiles-Whitted Encounter

Two Eastern Airlines pilots observed a cigar-shaped craft with glowing windows pass their DC-3 at close range, prompting Project Sign's ET conclusion.

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1948Russia6/10

Kapustin Yar Incident

A Soviet pilot was scrambled to intercept a silver object over the USSR's most secret missile base; the object reportedly disabled his aircraft with a beam.

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1946Sweden7/10

Ghost Rockets of Scandinavia

Over 2,000 reports of rocket-shaped objects over Scandinavia prompted a Swedish military investigation that concluded 80% were unexplained.

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1914South Africa5/10

South African Phantom Airship Wave

Thousands of South Africans reported an advanced aerial vehicle performing impossible maneuvers in the weeks before WWI, part of the mysterious global 'phantom airship' wave that predated modern UFO sightings by decades.

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1897United States3/10

Aurora, Texas Airship Crash

During the 1897 airship wave, a craft allegedly crashed into a windmill in Aurora, TX, with reports of a non-human pilot buried in the local cemetery.

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