CaseCigar2001
Tempe, AZ, USA
The movement away from me was too quick to be a blimp, and the change in direction to sudden for a plane.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-03
- Where
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.415, -111.909 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-tempe-az-2001-da2475
In context
- Tempe, AZ shows up 116 times across the archive.
- 115 reports came from Arizona in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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