CaseCigar1977
Lake Worth, FL, USA
Ball of "Fire " turns to Cigar - shaped craft
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-17
- Where
- Lake Worth, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 min.
- Geo
- 26.702, -80.045 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-lake-worth-fl-1977-ec4b37
Wave
Part of a wave
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In context
- Lake Worth, FL shows up 64 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from Florida in 1977.
- In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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