CaseCigar1997
Gulf of Mexico, LA, USA
Mercury colored Cigar shaped USO surfaced near Oil Plarform in Gulf of Mexico
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-09-07
- Where
- Gulf of Mexico, LA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 mins
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cigar-over-gulf-of-mexico-la-1997-7a9996
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Gulf of Mexico, LA shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from Louisiana in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 2.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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