CaseCigar1960
Hartwell, GA, USA
In 1960, a witness in Hartwell, Georgia, described their father's account of a large cigar-shaped object in smooth, controlled flight, lasting roughly 30 to 45 seconds.
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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (168 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-02-01
- Where
- Hartwell, GA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- Approx 30 to 45 seconds
- Geo
- 34.353, -82.932 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-hartwell-ga-1960-9e577f
In context
- Hartwell, GA has 6 sightings on file here.
- 1960 brought 1 reports from Georgia.
- The 1960s skewed 7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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