CaseCigar1971
Genoa, WV, USA
Two siblings in Genoa, West Virginia reported a cigar-shaped object moving quietly and very slowly overhead for about five minutes in July 1971.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (144 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-07-15
- Where
- Genoa, WV, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- about 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.122, -82.460 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-genoa-wv-1971-14bc26
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Genoa, WV.
- This case is one of 4 West Virginia reports filed in 1971.
- Cigar craft made up 5.2% of 1970s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
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