CaseCigar1956
Dove Creek, CO, USA
A witness near Dove Creek, Colorado reported a cigar-shaped object releasing smaller objects that performed unusual aerial maneuvers, over about 20 minutes in June 1956.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (169 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-06-15
- Where
- Dove Creek, CO, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 37.766, -108.906 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-dove-creek-co-1956-fc2e0d
In context
- Dove Creek, CO shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Colorado in 1956.
- In the 1950s, 7.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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