CaseCigar1953
Galveston, TX, USA
It had been my habit before I opened my place of business each morning to do my early morning fishing. This one particular morning I ha
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1953-06-17
- Where
- Galveston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 Minutes
- Geo
- 29.301, -94.798 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-galveston-tx-1953-4fdaf2
In context
- Galveston, TX shows up 35 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Texas in 1953.
- In the 1950s, 7.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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