CaseCigar1953
Merryville, LA, USA
A witness in Merryville, Louisiana reported a cigar-shaped object in the sky around 2 p.m. for about five minutes in July 1953.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1953-07-01
- Where
- Merryville, LA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- ~5 minutes
- Geo
- 30.754, -93.540 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-merryville-la-1953-23eaa5
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Merryville, LA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Louisiana logged 2 sightings in 1953.
- Cigar sightings ran at 7.3% during the 1950s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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