CaseCigar1968
Sewickley, PA, USA
A witness in Sewickley, Pennsylvania reported a stationary, airliner-sized, wingless cigar-shaped object at high altitude in August 1968, during a two-minute sighting.
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 (167 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-08-15
- Where
- Sewickley, PA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.536, -80.184 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-sewickley-pa-1968-c4a608
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Sewickley, PA.
- This case is one of 10 Pennsylvania reports filed in 1968.
- Cigar craft made up 7% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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