UFOMYST
CaseCigar1978

Eastport, ME, USA

glowing orange cigar shape light, that streached like an elastic.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-02-15
Where
Eastport, ME, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 MINS
Geo
44.904, -66.984 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-eastport-me-1978-2b5da3
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Eastport, ME shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Maine in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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