UFOMYST
CaseCigar1977

Marshall, IL, USA

totally black object in the sky

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-05-25
Where
Marshall, IL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 min.
Geo
39.391, -87.694 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-marshall-il-1977-b1f3bf
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Marshall, IL shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 13 reports came from Illinois in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.