CaseCigar1936
Eklutna, AK, USA
Two men in Eklutna, Alaska reported being approached by a cigar-shaped object in the night sky, observed for about three minutes in October 1936.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (145 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1936-10-15
- Where
- Eklutna, AK, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 minutes.
- Geo
- 61.458, -149.362 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-eklutna-ak-1936-6a0861
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Eklutna, AK in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alaska logged 1 sightings in 1936.
- Cigar sightings ran at 11.1% during the 1930s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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