CaseCigar1972
Clarksville, IN, USA
A witness in Clarksville, Indiana reported a slow-moving, cigar-shaped object lit along its side, traveling west to east over Interstate 65 silently for about fifteen seconds in June 1972.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (188 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-06-22
- Where
- Clarksville, IN, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 38.297, -85.760 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-clarksville-in-1972-fce5b5
In context
- Clarksville, IN shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Indiana in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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