CaseCigar1986
Clarkton, NC, USA
Low flying, large cigar shaped craft close-up view the day of the Challenger disaster in 1986.
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-01-28
- Where
- Clarkton, NC, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 34.487, -78.656 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-clarkton-nc-1986-8ad8a4
In context
- Clarkton, NC shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from North Carolina in 1986.
- In the 1980s, 3.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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