CaseCigar1971
Humboldt, IA, USA
A witness in Humboldt, Iowa reported a cigar-shaped object resembling a large blimp that appeared from a clear sky, descended, landed, and vanished within about 45 seconds in September 1971.
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (190 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-09-01
- Where
- Humboldt, IA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 45 sec
- Geo
- 42.721, -94.215 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-humboldt-ia-1971-901943
In context
- Humboldt, IA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1971 brought 3 reports from Iowa.
- The 1970s skewed 5.2% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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