UFOMYST
CaseCigar1966

Peoria, IL, USA

Cigar shaped object with windows in it

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-06-30
Where
Peoria, IL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
Brief (?)
Geo
40.694, -89.589 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-peoria-il-1966-606241
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • Peoria, IL has 40 sightings on file here.
  • 1966 brought 9 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1960s skewed 7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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