CaseCigar1998
Albany, OR, USA
The object was a cross between cigar and cylinder. Red tip, blue back. Traveling at high rate of speed at same altitude as plane (Apr
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: 540s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-16
- Where
- Albany, OR, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 8-10 minutes
- Geo
- 44.637, -123.106 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-albany-or-1998-9086e9
In context
- One of 60 documented reports from Albany, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 60 sightings in 1998.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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