UFOMYST
CaseCigar1977

Greenup (near), IL, USA

We saw a huge cigar like metalic object that seemed to hang in the sky directly over the tree tops!

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-07-07
Where
Greenup (near), IL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
39.248, -88.163 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-greenup-near-il-1977-2d250a
Wave

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Greenup (near), IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 13 sightings in 1977.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 5.2% during the 1970s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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