CaseCigar1957
Madison, WI, USA
A witness in Madison, Wisconsin reported a large, fuchsia-pink cigar-shaped object slowly flying over a building, observed for about an hour in December 1957.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (158 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-12-28
- Where
- Madison, WI, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 43.073, -89.401 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-madison-wi-1957-8919c9
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In context
- Madison, WI shows up 117 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Wisconsin in 1957.
- In the 1950s, 7.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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