CaseCigar1976
Canton, OH, USA
Cigar shaped object seen in early afternoon by several witness for several min. in summer of 1976 or 1977.
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-06-15
- Where
- Canton, OH, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 7 min
- Geo
- 40.799, -81.378 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-canton-oh-1976-885d1d
In context
- Canton, OH shows up 43 times across the archive.
- 18 reports came from Ohio in 1976.
- In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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