CaseCigar1979
Churchill, PA, USA
Stationary silent black cigar shaped object in the winter sky. ((NUFORC Note: Report from an aerospace engineer. PD))
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-12-31
- Where
- Churchill, PA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 40.438, -79.843 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-churchill-pa-1979-0e07e1
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Churchill, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 12 sightings in 1979.
- Cigar sightings ran at 5.2% during the 1970s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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