CaseCigar1968
Crystal Lake, IL, USA
Cigar shaped vehicle hovering over farm field.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-10-15
- Where
- Crystal Lake, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 42.241, -88.316 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-crystal-lake-il-1968-603e93
In context
- This is one of 27 reports logged in Crystal Lake, IL.
- This case is one of 6 Illinois reports filed in 1968.
- Cigar craft made up 7% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.