CaseCigar1950
Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA
A witness near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho reported a bright orange, cigar-shaped object traveling at an estimated high rate of speed, observed for about 10 seconds in July 1950.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (171 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1950-07-02
- Where
- Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 47.678, -116.780 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-coeur-d-alene-id-1950-b8f41b
In context
- Coeur d'Alene, ID has 46 sightings on file here.
- 1950 brought 1 reports from Idaho.
- The 1950s skewed 7.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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