CaseCigar1957
Hopkinsville, KY, USA
Witnesses in Hopkinsville, Kentucky reported four silent, metallic silver, cigar-shaped objects in the sky for about ten minutes in September 1957.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (147 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-09-20
- Where
- Hopkinsville, KY, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 36.866, -87.491 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-hopkinsville-ky-1957-463ee9
In context
- This is one of 16 reports logged in Hopkinsville, KY.
- This case is one of 1 Kentucky reports filed in 1957.
- Cigar craft made up 7.3% of 1950s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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