CaseCigar1961
Auburn, WA, USA
In 1961, a woman in Auburn, Washington, reported seeing a cigar-shaped craft she described as long as the valley was wide, during a sighting lasting about five minutes.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (168 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-05-01
- Where
- Auburn, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 47.307, -122.228 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-auburn-wa-1961-8b6a95
In context
- This is one of 104 reports logged in Auburn, WA.
- This case is one of 2 Washington reports filed in 1961.
- Cigar craft made up 7% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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