Cigar / cylinder
Also: cylindrical object; cigar-shaped UFO; school-bus-shaped object; octagonal cylinder (Herrera)
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Chiles–Whitted witness drawings
Two historical drawings preserved in case records. Shape comparators, not photographs of later cylinder reports.
Chiles / Whitted · NICAP archive ↗Link only — rights with the publisherAn interpretation of the reports
AI interpretation of the 'cigar' or cylinder: a long wingless body with rounded ends, here following Michael Herrera's octagonal, panelled description. Other accounts describe only a plain or glowing cylinder; not a photograph, not evidence.
UAP Record · ImageGen ↗Original illustrationRichard Dolan · 0:52:31
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 0:24:48
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 1:03:40
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedA long, wingless cylinder — “cigar-shaped” in older reports — described hovering horizontally or zooming past. Corpus accounts include a Cold War naval sighting relayed by Richard Dolan, a NASA whistleblower’s 800-foot underwater object, Michael Herrera’s 300-foot Indonesian craft, Varginha witnesses’ “school bus” cylinder, and Tim Alberino’s list of Pacific sightings.
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The cigar is the elongated cousin of the disc. Richard Dolan retells a naval account in which sailors were ordered to face forward and “what they see is this long cigar- shaped object zooming by horizontally”. A former NASA contractor says a carrier group “had an 800 ft long USO following it” that “drained all the batteries” of a submarine, and another guest describes “this cigar shaped object” performing “90° angles”. Tim Alberino lists “the saucers, the cigar- shaped craft” among the metallic objects reported in the Pacific.
The most detailed modern account is Michael Herrera’s: describing a 2009 Sumatra deployment he says “I estimated that this thing was probably about 300 ft” and later corrects the shape to an octagon. In Brazil, James Fox says the witnesses he interviewed described the 1996 Varginha object as “cylindrical shaped like a school bus, like a cigar”, and Carlos de Souza, in a translated clip, compares it to a submarine. Jesse Michels notes that Gary McKinnon’s base sources described “tic tacs or cigar- shaped objects” acting as a mothership for smaller lights.
The vocabulary has shifted: several speakers say what was called a cigar in the 1960s–1990s is now called a tic tac. Explanations offered are the standard ones — airships, aircraft or rockets seen end-on, submarines for the underwater reports, classified vehicles — plus Herrera’s specific claim that his craft belonged to a human black programme. None of the cylinder cases in the corpus carries independent corroboration.
Reported characteristics
Every value is a report, not a specification.
| shape | Long cylinder or cigar with rounded ends and no control surfaces; Herrera describes an octagonal cross-section with panels. |
|---|---|
| size | From “school bus” size (Varginha) to a stated 300 ft (Herrera) and 800 ft (underwater report). |
| lights | Bright or glowing in the naval account; matte panelled hull in Herrera’s; smoking wreckage at Varginha. |
| sound | Little or none reported. |
| motion | Horizontal passes at speed, right-angle turns, hovering; one underwater object said to pace a carrier group. |
| era | Cold War naval and base cases, 1996 Varginha, 2009 Herrera. |
Explanations offered
Airship, aircraft or rocket seen end-on
Submarine or towed array (for the underwater report)
Classified human black-programme vehicle (Herrera’s reading)
Genuinely unidentified craft
Mentioned in the corpus
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
The Defense Secretary Killed Over UFOs (Ft. Richard Dolan) 28 June 2025
- 0:52:31 ▶ Richard Dolan
what they see is this long cigar- shaped object zooming by horizontally, and that's all he saw.
- 0:52:31 ▶ Richard Dolan
NASA Whistleblower: “We Systematically Suppress UFO Data!” 18 January 2026
The Man Sitting On More UFO Evidence Than Anyone Alive 21 February 2026
“I Saw A 300ft UFO In The Indonesian Jungle” (Ft. Michael Herrera & UAPGerb) 26 March 2025
- 0:09:24 ▶ Michael Herrera
I estimated that this thing was probably about 300 ft.
- 0:09:24 ▶ Michael Herrera
“My Hospital Operated On An Alien!” -Top Surgeon [Exclusive Interview] 31 January 2026
Army Captures Live Alien (Hospital Report Revealed!) 21 December 2025
The Hacker That Found NASA’s Secret Space Fleet [Gary McKinnon Interview] 1 March 2026
- 0:36:23 ▶ Jesse Michels
he talks about um tic tacs or cigar- shaped objects often being sort of like a mother ship and saucers flying out of the the tic tacs.
- 0:36:23 ▶ Jesse Michels
“We Captured a 12 Foot Giant in Afghanistan!” -Tim Alberino 5 April 2026
- 2:08:39 ▶ Tim Alberino
the metallic objects, the saucers, the cigar- shaped craft, you know, darting around in the sky, moving at impossible speeds.
- 2:08:39 ▶ Tim Alberino
On the map
Varginha, Malmstrom AFB / Oscar Flight, Nellis Range / Indian Springs, Swedish ghost rockets, Levelland sightings, Broad Haven school sighting (Wales)… Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 0:52:31 The Defense Secretary Killed Over UFOs (Ft. Richard Dolan) · Richard Dolan ▶
what they see is this long cigar- shaped object zooming by horizontally, and that's all he saw.
- 0:24:48 NASA Whistleblower: “We Systematically Suppress UFO Data!” ▶
had an 800 ft long USO following it and it was about 2 km behind the ship and actually closed that distance in 25 seconds and went under the ship and drained all the batteries.
- 1:03:40 The Man Sitting On More UFO Evidence Than Anyone Alive ▶
they see over the treetops this cigar shaped object moving like like this. Uh so they are running down into the radar equipments and look and they can see the object on their radar screens and it's doing 90° angles like this.
- 0:09:24 “I Saw A 300ft UFO In The Indonesian Jungle” (Ft. Michael Herrera & UAPGerb) · Michael Herrera ▶
I estimated that this thing was probably about 300 ft.
- 0:43:18 “My Hospital Operated On An Alien!” -Top Surgeon [Exclusive Interview] · James Fox ▶
it was cylindrical shaped like a school bus, like a cigar, had no control services
- 0:04:33 Army Captures Live Alien (Hospital Report Revealed!) · Carlos de Souza (translated clip) ▶
It was the size of a school bus. dogs and no noise at all. We kept watching it because there was smoke, a light smoke wrapped around it. But I even joked with her. What is that? Is it a submarine?
- 0:36:23 The Hacker That Found NASA’s Secret Space Fleet [Gary McKinnon Interview] · Jesse Michels ▶
he talks about um tic tacs or cigar- shaped objects often being sort of like a mother ship and saucers flying out of the the tic tacs.
- 2:08:39 “We Captured a 12 Foot Giant in Afghanistan!” -Tim Alberino · Tim Alberino ▶
the metallic objects, the saucers, the cigar- shaped craft, you know, darting around in the sky, moving at impossible speeds.
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