CaseCigar1968
Gilmer, TX, USA
A witness near Gilmer Lake in Gilmer, Texas reported a blue cigar-shaped object in the sky in June 1968, observed for about forty seconds before it disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (160 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-06-30
- Where
- Gilmer, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 40 seconds
- Geo
- 32.729, -94.942 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-gilmer-tx-1968-94837c
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In context
- One of 4 documented reports from Gilmer, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 16 sightings in 1968.
- Cigar sightings ran at 7% during the 1960s (archive average: 2.5%).
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