Proctor, OK, USA
A witness in Proctor, Oklahoma reported a cigar-shaped object with no sound but a low, sub-sonic vibration, observed for about two minutes in August 1947.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (154 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-08-15
- Where
- Proctor, OK, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 35.966, -94.777 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-proctor-ok-1947-d355e2
Part of a wave
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In context
- Proctor, OK shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Oklahoma in 1947.
- In the 1940s, 7.8% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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