CaseCigar1983
Peoria County, IL, USA
In the summer of 1983, while driving home from work in a rural setting, I saw a huge reddish orange cigar shaped object that looked lik
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1983-08-20
- Where
- Peoria County, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- approx. one minute
- Geo
- 40.788, -89.760 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-peoria-county-il-1983-ea54f8
In context
- Peoria County, IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Illinois in 1983.
- In the 1980s, 3.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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