CaseCigar1968
Gainesville, GA, USA
A teenager driving home from school in Gainesville, Georgia, reported seeing a bright silver cigar-shaped object appear briefly in the air ahead of them in April 1968.
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (167 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-04-03
- Where
- Gainesville, GA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- seconds
- Geo
- 34.298, -83.824 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-gainesville-ga-1968-63b40e
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In context
- Gainesville, GA has 32 sightings on file here.
- 1968 brought 10 reports from Georgia.
- The 1960s skewed 7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
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