CaseCigar1971
Liberal, KS, USA
Witnesses in Liberal, Kansas reported a cigar-shaped object low over a nearby lake following July 4th fireworks in 1971, during a sighting lasting fifteen to twenty minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (173 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-07-04
- Where
- Liberal, KS, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 37.043, -100.921 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-liberal-ks-1971-ff2f16
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from Liberal, KS in the UFOMYST archive.
- Kansas logged 2 sightings in 1971.
- Cigar sightings ran at 5.2% during the 1970s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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