CaseCigar1958
Karangaroa (New Zealand), New Zealand
aged 12 in 1958 saw dull silver stationary cigar tube shaped object in clear sky with no markings or sound for 5 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1958-08-04
- Where
- Karangaroa (New Zealand), New Zealand
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cigar-over-karangaroa-new-zealand-1958-3bfbd4
In context
- Karangaroa (New Zealand), New Zealand shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from New Zealand in 1958.
- In the 1950s, 7.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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