CaseCigar1946

Burnaby (Canada), BC, Canada

I was six at the time,My mother and brother saw them as well. They were not moving,just stayed cloce to a cloud after which they starte

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1946-06-15
Where
Burnaby (Canada), BC, Canada
Shape
Cigar
Duration
15 min
Geo
49.266, -122.953 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-burnaby-canada-bc-1946-7f1f36
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1946

    The Ghost Rockets

    Scandinavia (Sweden foremost), spreading across Europe

    One year after WWII, projectile-like objects crossed Scandinavian skies, some reportedly crashing into lakes; Swedish military dredging found nothing. With Soviet-occupied Peenemünde nearby, the assumption was Russian…

In context

  • Burnaby (Canada), Canada shows up 27 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Canada in 1946.
  • In the 1940s, 7.8% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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