Miami, FL, USA
A large cigar shaped metallic object slowly flew over the city at approx. 3:30 P.M. on a perfect Miami afternoon.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1946
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 min.
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-miami-fl-1946-c29c34
Part of a wave
The Ghost Rockets
Scandinavia (Sweden foremost), spreading across Europe
One year after WWII, projectile-like objects crossed Scandinavian skies, some reportedly crashing into lakes; Swedish military dredging found nothing. With Soviet-occupied Peenemünde nearby, the assumption was Russian…
In context
- This is one of 340 reports logged in Miami, FL.
- This case is one of 1 Florida reports filed in 1946.
- Cigar craft made up 7.8% of 1940s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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