UFOMYST
CaseCigar1978

Lawrenceburg, TN, USA

Cigar shaped craft - 30 years ago - technology still cannot be explained

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-15
Where
Lawrenceburg, TN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 min
Geo
35.242, -87.335 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-lawrenceburg-tn-1978-7f0693
Wave

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In context

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Lawrenceburg, TN.
  • This case is one of 9 Tennessee reports filed in 1978.
  • Cigar craft made up 5.2% of 1970s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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