Cigar
A long tube without wings or tail, reported since the nineteenth-century airship waves.
3,437 entries on file
April 7, 2026 · 10:20 PM · CIGAR
IdentifiedBurgnac, Limousin · France
Le 07 avril 2026, à 22h20, à l'extérieur de sa propriété, sur la commune de BURGNAC (87), un témoin observe durant 20 à 30 secondes un phénomène de forme allongée et segmentée, semblable à un cylindre compartimenté. L'objet se déplace sur un axe Nord-Sud avant de disparaître vers le Sud-Est. D'étrangeté faible et de consistance* moyenne (2 témoins, mais témoignage unique, pas de photo du PAN), ce cas s'avère ètre l'observation de tout ou partie des 18 satellites " Qianfan SpaceSail 109 - 116 " lancés moins de sept heures auparavant par une fusée chinoise " Long March 8 " selon une orbite quasi-polaire ( voir le compte rendu d'enquète). *Selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d'informations considérées comme fiables et objectivées, recueillies pour un témoignage. Ces satellites sont rendus visibles par leur éclairement direct par le Soleil, couché pour l'observateur, qui se reflète sur un élément de la structure de ces satellites situés, au moment de l'observation, sur une orbite intermédiaire avant de rejoindre leur position dans le réseau de la mégaconstellation " Quaifan SpaceSail" (internet par satellite >> concurrent de Starlink®). Il s'avère que de nombreux témoignages, dont un au GEIPAN (VERNOIL-LE-FOURRIER (49) 07.04.2026) mais également en Europe recoupent celui du témoin, avec une confirmation de l'aspect global du PAN. Les paramètres orbitaux récupérés au cours de l'enquète confirment que ce groupe de satellites passait en visibilité du témoin selon la trajectoire décrite. Le cas d'observation est classé " A ", observation de flares de satellites en orbite intermédiaire avant de rejoindre leur position dans la mégaconstellation " Qianfan SpaceSail ". [GEIPAN classification A — Satellite flaring]
September 14, 2024 · 9:30 PM · CIGAR
IdentifiedEmance, Ile-de-France · France
Le 14 septembre 2024 au soir, un habitant d'Emancé (78) et ses enfants observent la Lune lorsqu'ils aperçoivent des feux de navigation inhabituels derrière un petit bois. T1 identifie un hélicoptère militaire, probablement un Tigre, passant légèrement au-dessus de la Lune. Quelques minutes plus tard, un second objet suit une trajectoire similaire vers la Lune. Les feux de navigation sont visibles, et une silhouette allongée type « cigare » apparaît dans la lumière lunaire, avec un feu blanc à l'avant. La traversée de la Lune dure 1 à 2 secondes, sans bruit perceptible. D'étrangeté faible et de consistance* jugée bonne (plusieurs témoins, témoignage unique mais assez complet, pas de photo du PAN), ce cas s'avère être une observation d'un avion de ligne (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). *Selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d'informations considérées comme fiables et objectivées, recueillies pour un témoignage. La description du PAN évoque très fortement un avion, puisque le PAN est doté de feux de navigation. Une reconstitution du trafic aérien ne permet pas de retrouver l'hélicoptère décrit par T1, mais permet d'identifier le PAN comme étant un A321 de la compagnie Vueling (vol VLG43PQ), dont la trajectoire et l'horaire de passage correspondent à ceux du PAN. La reconstitution de sa trajectoire apparente montre qu'il est effectivement passé devant la Lune. Le cas est classé « A », observation d'un avion de ligne. [GEIPAN classification A — Avion de ligne]
November 30, 2023 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
Helsingør · Denmark
i was outside fooling around in the snow with a friend and that friends sister, basically i got hit by a snowball very hard (probably layed on the ground for 20 seconds) then i opened my eyes and saw my friend and his sister leaving, i looked up at the sky and saw a plane (boeing 737 probably) the lights on the plane dimmed and a craft appeared. the craft was long thin and had 4 pairs of green and red lights on it. i looked at it for about 20 seconds then ran to tell my friend and i lost sight of the craft
November 30, 2023 · 12:00 PM · CIGAR
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Have to assume these were drones, but could not find similar shapes in search. They were flying slowly, whatever they were. Silent. In the first pass, one was slightly in front of the other, flying along and to the ocean side and just above the Carlyle, a condo building of 3 or 4 stories. Looked like they could have been as large as a small car, but shaped for all the world like a giant tictac. Route was south to north between that building ( Carlyle) and The Lodge and Club at Ponte Vedra Beach. Closer to the Carlyle, and slightly west of Ocean Blvd. watched them go and went back to swimming. Then a 3rd one followed shortly after. Might have been 1 minute, might have been 2. might have been a drone coming back for another pass without its friend. Whatever. 3rd one flew on the other side of the Carlyle, west side of that building, just above roof height. Again the path was south to north. Nothing else happened. No military planes showed up from NAS Jax or Mayport. Assumed if it was dangerous, they would have. Continued my swim. You see all kinds of stuff swimming backstroke, but this was a first. If I had not been swimming backstroke, I would never have seen them -- unless maybe sitting poolside looking north, which no one does because the sun is not coming from that direction. If I'd had a camera or phone, I would have taken a picture. There wasn't anybody else in the pool to do it. I looked around. Employees inside were, you know, inside. Lifeguard either gone for the day or not present at that time. If I had gotten out of the pool to got inside, they would have been gone. I'm not sure on the day, honestly. It was last week ( last week of November, first couple days of December), and I swam in reverse order, Sunday 12/3, sat 12/2, thurs 11/30, tues 11/28 -- sat 11/25 before that. Mostly I swim between 11am and 1 pm. [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Possible]
November 27, 2023 · 1:05 PM · CIGAR
Bandon, OR
I was standing on my front porch and heard a helicopter coming. So I looked and it was the Coast Guard heading right towards my house from the Northeast heading southwest. All of the sudden there was this white cigar shaped thing (with what looked like a long window in the middle of it) coming straight towards the helicopter from the southeast going to the northwest. I thought for sure it was going to collide with the Coast Guard. Thankfully, they were much faster than the white cigar shaped thing. The cigar was going so slow that I could not hear the helicopter any longer. I saw it long enough to open the door holler for my daughter to come here close the door turn back around and still see it before it went behind my tree. The sky was blue no clouds at all, no birds. I could see it through my apple tree branches. It was quite thin compared to the helicopter. The I could see what I can only sense was a window right in the middle, shaped like a cigar. I could see the white all the way around the window. It had no wings, no tail, no sound at all. It was one single object. It was much slower than the helicopter. It had no lights. I thought if it was an aircraft it would have been illegal for them to fly so closely. It was also very low to the ground.
November 14, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CIGAR
Chicago, IL
Was in the midst of playing guitar and drumming and was exiting the bathroom when I went to go shut the window and blinds. The angle I was at gave me clear view of the 7/11 across the train tracks adjacent to my building. I saw a cigar shaped saucer with four lights on the underbelly of the craft, and a blue haze was being emitted from the underbelly. I was freaking out, yelling at my neighbor's to look out the window, and it stayed out until others went to observe, but it was still visible as it descended behind the building next to 7/11. It eventually disappeared and no one saw it fly away, but as we awaited it's departure, a second craft came in from the southwest and flew rather erratically and didn't fly like how I traditionally propelled aircraft would. The crafts also exhibited both horizontal and VTOL flight capabilities, with them seeming propelled by the propulsion source on the underside of the craft that emits a blue glow akin to the same glow emitted by uranium fuel rods when submerged in a cooling pool in a nuclear power plant, or like the glow of the tesseract in the Avengers film. A blue glow emanated from both craft's undersides.
November 4, 2023 · 11:30 AM · CIGAR
Clayton, OK
I was driving on Hwy. 2 moving SE toward Clayton, OK. At first I was noticing contrails in the sky. I saw a black dot way up in the sky thinking it might be a hawk or an eagle. I continued to watch as it got closer to me and realized that it might be a government drone. It had no wings was black and cigar shaped. It was at least 1000 ft in the air and moving from the SE to the NW. I have never seen anything like this. I know what drones look like but this did not have an apparent propulsion system. I do not know what I saw, I did not stop my car to watch as it went above my car. I was not looking for any strange flying object. I cannot unsee what I saw and it puzzles me. I would like to have an explanation of what I saw in the daytime over rural Oklahoma.
November 2, 2023 · 9:02 PM · CIGAR
Lemoyne, PA
While driving home from the grocery store, I saw in the sky a very fast-moving object. I was near 40.23974839965564, -76.89965313955344. While we have a fair amount of airplanes and helicopters in our area, this didn't look like anything I'd ever seen before. It was shaped just like a tic-tac, or a pill; it was glowing white - and though it was moving very fast across the sky, diagonally from my upper right to lower left field of vision, it did not have a motion trail. It was perfectly shaped, meaning the outline of it stood out vividly against the sky, in perfect relief - the line of its shape was perfectly defined against the black sky, like it was drawn there. And it was glowing white, though there was nothing external that was lighting it (ie. no spotlight on it or any other external source of light). It moved very fast across the sky, paused very briefly at a spot in the distance, then rapidly shot straight down towards the ground. It then disappeared behind the skyline of houses and churches on the street. There was no explosion or indication that anything crashed - it just disappeared behind the building line. While I normally can hear and see airplanes, or hear and see helicopters coming in and out of Harrisburg City, there was absolutely no sound here - it was very un-nerving. I got home and took my dashboard camera inside to see if it caught anything. The video shows a light that looks like a shooting star, moving fast across the sky in a straight line from upper-right to lower left of the sky; it then pauses briefly, then shoots down and disappears.
October 31, 2023 · 8:09 AM · CIGAR
Probable conventionalWethersfield, CT
While waiting in front of my house with my two kids and wife for school bus to arrive, we saw a fast, shiny, object moving high in the sky. The object had no white streaks, or flashing lights the way a jet does. It appeared to be moving very fast then it slowed down and then it moved fast again. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
October 26, 2023 · 5:19 PM · CIGAR
Probable conventionalMarshfield, MA
I saw a very bright cigar shaped object that seem to change shape in the photos I took, either very lit up or very white, in the sky next to a Plain air traffic. It was absolutely NOT a plane. Planes were flying by it and slowing down. You could see the speed of the planes not they were moving. Very obviously. This object is not moving at all. I got photos of it. I was there for at least 20 minutes, but I could not stay any longer. My friend drop me off at my house left I’m on followed the street and he said it was hovering near the beaches. It was low enough that you could see that it was not a plane, and you could see the detail of the planes passing by and that they were very different. The picture was taken from far away so you have to zoom in, but you can clearly see the change of shape. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
October 20, 2023 · 2:30 PM · CIGAR
Chubbuck, ID
As we were driving, I noticed a bright object hovering above a mountain. It wasn’t moving and it was very bright. After telling some people about it, I found out the same object was photographed in Soda Springs two days earlier. We compared photos, and they seem to be the same thing.
October 13, 2023 · 8:00 PM · CIGAR
Probable conventionalCedar Park, TX
Noticed bright bar of light, not flashing, and wondered what it was. Almost immediately after I noticed and stared it sent out out a fan of what looked like water with distinct lines similar to a hose end yard sprinkler. Quickly it turned to mist and cloaked the bar of light. Turned the object into a hazy sphere blending into the sky until it vanished. Slow moving and silent. Wish I could have taken my phone out but had hands full of mail and was walking dog. Happened within about 2 minutes. Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]