CaseCigar1966
Auburn, WA, USA
I witnessed a cigar-shaped object being "chased" by a military jet aircraft at dusk.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-03-26
- Where
- Auburn, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 47.307, -122.228 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-auburn-wa-1966-8c1925
Wave
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 104 reports logged in Auburn, WA.
- This case is one of 14 Washington reports filed in 1966.
- Cigar craft made up 7% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.