CaseCigar1977
Hancock, MD, USA
UFO and Biological Entity seen by four children over two days
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-10-15
- Where
- Hancock, MD, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 39.699, -78.180 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-hancock-md-1977-dfd178
Wave
Part of a wave
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Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil
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In context
- Hancock, MD shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from Maryland in 1977.
- In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.