CaseCigar1998
Elkhart, IN, USA
Silver Cigar-Shaped Object, Elkhart, IN,
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-06
- Where
- Elkhart, IN, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 8 seconds
- Geo
- 41.682, -85.977 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-elkhart-in-1998-2b5cab
In context
- Elkhart, IN has 20 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 31 reports from Indiana.
- The 1990s skewed 2.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
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.