CaseCigar1980
Benton Harbor, MI, USA
Very large, cigar shaped with round portholes on Lake Michigan's bluff.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-07-20
- Where
- Benton Harbor, MI, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 " ??
- Geo
- 42.117, -86.454 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-benton-harbor-mi-1980-93d8e0
In context
- Benton Harbor, MI shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 12 reports came from Michigan in 1980.
- In the 1980s, 3.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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