CaseCigar1974
Miami, FL, USA
Close Encounter with a large cigar shaped UFO.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-08-15
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 Mins.
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-miami-fl-1974-66beed
In context
- This is one of 340 reports logged in Miami, FL.
- This case is one of 14 Florida reports filed in 1974.
- Cigar craft made up 5.2% of 1970s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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