CaseCigar1998
Lichfield (near); Staffordshire (UK/England), United Kingdom
Golden cigar tail fin, motionless in sky, high elevation, sudden brilliant flash of light preceding total disappearance. Viewed from ca
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-23
- Where
- Lichfield (near); Staffordshire (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2-3mins
- Geo
- 52.682, -1.825 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-lichfield-near-staffordshire-uk-england-1998-296260
In context
- Lichfield (near); Staffordshire (UK/England), United Kingdom has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 53 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 1990s skewed 2.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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