UFOMYST
CaseCigar1978

Buccaneer Archipelago. W. Australia (Australia), Australia

Encounter with a unexplainable submerged object

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-11-15
Where
Buccaneer Archipelago. W. Australia (Australia), Australia
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20mins
Geo
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Slug
cigar-over-buccaneer-archipelago-w-australia-australia-1978-dc722f
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Buccaneer Archipelago. W. Australia (Australia), Australia.
  • This case is one of 6 Australia reports filed in 1978.
  • Cigar craft made up 5.2% of 1970s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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