Cigar-Shaped UFO
TopicCraft TypeCigar-Shaped UFO
TopicCraft TypeA recurring UFO report type describing long, wingless, cylindrical objects, from 1897 "airships" and the 1948 Chiles–Whitted sighting to modern Tic Tac-like reports.
A recurring UFO report type describing long, wingless, cylindrical objects, from 1897 "airships" and the 1948 Chiles–Whitted sighting to modern Tic Tac-like reports.
Cigar-shaped UFOs are reports of elongated, cylindrical objects with rounded ends, usually described as silver, white or metallic and without visible wings, tail or engines. The shape is one of the oldest and most persistent categories in sighting reports, alongside discs, spheres and triangles, and it overlaps with labels such as cylinder, torpedo and, more recently, Tic Tac. Witnesses describe such objects hovering, moving slowly or crossing the sky in silence, sometimes with rows of lights or windows or a glowing exhaust.
The description predates powered flight. During the 1896–1897 American airship wave, The Dallas Morning News reported an airship over Denton, Texas, "cigar-shaped with a light, moving slowly," and a story from the same weeks claimed a craft had crashed into a windmill at Aurora, Texas, an account most researchers have considered a probable hoax since the 1970s. The classic modern case is the Chiles–Whitted encounter of July 24, 1948, when two Eastern Air Lines pilots near Montgomery, Alabama, described a wingless object about 100 feet long, likened to a B-29 fuselage, with flames from its tail and, in John Whitted's account, two rows of windows. Air Force investigator Edward Ruppelt later wrote that the case helped persuade Project Sign that UFOs were real.
Conventional explanations depend on the case. Astronomers J. Allen Hynek and Donald Menzel concluded that Chiles and Whitted saw an exceptionally bright meteor, and the Air Force listed the sighting as a fireball-type meteor in 1959, although physicist James McDonald, who interviewed the pilots in the 1960s, disagreed. Distant aircraft seen in glare, airships, balloons and fireballs can all appear wingless and elongated. The best-known modern relative, the 2004 USS Nimitz encounter off California, involved a white oval object about 40 feet long. In recent government data the shape is less prominent: AARO's fiscal 2025 report found that lights and spheroidal objects made up nearly three-quarters of described morphologies.
The shape also anchors secondhand claims. Gary McKinnon, the British systems administrator who accessed U.S. military and NASA computers in 2001 and 2002, says he saw an image of a cigar-shaped object above the Northern Hemisphere on a NASA system but did not capture it, and the claim recirculated in 2026 through clips by Jesse Michels and Danny Jones. The cigar form's significance lies in its continuity: it links the airship reports of the 1890s, the first postwar aircrew sightings and modern Navy encounters, while its best-documented examples were either explained as meteors or rest on testimony alone.
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Been looking at the Sapporo case from 1977. Starts as a sighting of a big craft and then turns into contact with actual beings. On 7 June around 3pm a twenty-year-old (N / Nakano) was waiting for a UFO programme. He hears rustling, goes outside, and says he sees a huge silver-white cigar-shaped object hovering right at the tops of the trees by his house (trees about 20m high). It had eight round windows along the side, three of them smaller, and a bluish-white glow. It was rotating while mo...
[Retweeted] Gary McKinnon says he hacked NASA & saw a photo of a metallic, cigar-shaped craft above Earth. Then a network administrator cut off his access. Filmmaker Darcy Weir (@Occultjourneys) explains what McKinnon described seeing: https://t.co/HdHPb85Nd8
Gary McKinnon says he hacked NASA & saw a photo of a metallic, cigar-shaped craft above Earth. Then a network administrator cut off his access. Filmmaker Darcy Weir (@Occultjourneys) explains what McKinnon described seeing: https://t.co/HdHPb85Nd8
This is from a dataset with some 80k or so sightings. I narrowed to cigar shaped craft (about 7,000), and created this word cloud. Then I created another word cloud for disk-shaped objects. Looks pretty similar tbh, I struggled to tell the difference. Then I created a "difference cloud", to highlight the differences between them. Cigar observations mention wings way more than disc ones (duh), and disc ones mention colors, and adjectives like "hovered" a lot more. This isn't polished of course...
cigar-shaped, submarine-like objects often reported to come from under water and then fly in the air was photographed over New York City on March 20, 1950. The photographer's name was deleted from Project Blue Book's file, as were most names when the material was released, including these two photographs.
RT @UAPLuigi: Cattle Ranchers who live near Robert Hastings witnessed: Orbs, cigar shaped craft, drunken satellites, and silent triangles t…
Silent white cigar-shaped object moved steadily across sky over Highland Springs, VA — Jul 23, 2026, 8:00 PM
First off, this ce5 stuff is real. I haven't done it myself, but know telepathic communications with them is a thing. That being said, one told me that time space is basically like a god, and that it bends itself to allow them to be here. It wants us connected with them for some reason. They also said that the pilots of the cigar shaped craft are not from our time space, and are bad/hostile. That reminded me of this painting of a battle in the skies. What do we know about cigar shaped craft?...
