CaseCigar1997
Helsinki (Finland), Finland
Cigar shaped objects, yellow colour, three crafts, lights in one of the object.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-15
- Where
- Helsinki (Finland), Finland
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- About half an hour
- Geo
- 60.170, 24.935 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-helsinki-finland-1997-7a21f9
Wave
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Helsinki (Finland), Finland.
- This case is one of 1 Finland reports filed in 1997.
- Cigar craft made up 2.3% of 1990s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
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.