UFOMYST
CaseCigar1977

Hattiesburg, MS, USA

cigar-shaped white mettallilc object with four red and green lights positioned beside it - seen in daylight

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1977-04-15
Where
Hattiesburg, MS, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
31.327, -89.290 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-hattiesburg-ms-1977-1131e8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Hattiesburg, MS.
  • This case is one of 10 Mississippi reports filed in 1977.
  • Cigar craft made up 5.2% of 1970s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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