CaseCigar1957
Canton, OH, USA
A witness in Canton, Ohio reported a cigar-shaped object remaining motionless for over a minute before moving west at extreme speed and vanishing, over about three minutes in May 1957.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (184 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-05-01
- Where
- Canton, OH, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 40.799, -81.378 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-canton-oh-1957-a72a1e
In context
- One of 43 documented reports from Canton, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 4 sightings in 1957.
- Cigar sightings ran at 7.3% during the 1950s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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