UFOMYST
CaseCigar1989

Port Townsend (10 nm so.), WA, USA

Sighted WW II barrage balloon at 1500' AGL (no lights) which accelerated rapidly as I approached in my light aircraft.

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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (118 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-04-23
Where
Port Townsend (10 nm so.), WA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
4-5 minutes
Geo
48.117, -122.761 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-port-townsend-10-nm-so-wa-1989-b1c5ae
Wave

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Port Townsend (10 nm so.), WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 8 sightings in 1989.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 3.9% during the 1980s (archive average: 2.5%).

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