CaseCigar1988
Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia
Large cigar shaped craft,flying sideways,over bay,toward's our car.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-10-12
- Where
- Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 MIN'S
- Geo
- -37.814, 144.963 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-melbourne-vic-australia-1988-558e1a
In context
- Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia shows up 48 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from Australia in 1988.
- In the 1980s, 3.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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