CaseCigar1974
Beaumont, TX, USA
Watched star like object on the horizan go up in an arch and then approach me and fly close enough so I could see the pilot.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-12-15
- Where
- Beaumont, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 30.086, -94.102 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-beaumont-tx-1974-0b643b
In context
- Beaumont, TX has 18 sightings on file here.
- 1974 brought 13 reports from Texas.
- The 1970s skewed 5.2% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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