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

  • Historical wave1997

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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

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