CaseCigar1963
Fort Collins, CO, USA
A deputy sheriff near Fort Collins, Colorado reported a bright, cigar-shaped object that followed his patrol boat for about seven miles, in a sighting lasting about 10 minutes in June 1963.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (189 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1963-06-10
- Where
- Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.585, -105.084 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-fort-collins-co-1963-973760
In context
- Fort Collins, CO shows up 124 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Colorado in 1963.
- In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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