CaseCigar1977
Minneola, FL, USA
The strangest thing I have ever seen.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-03-20
- Where
- Minneola, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Geo
- 28.574, -81.746 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-minneola-fl-1977-3cebb6
Wave
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Minneola, FL.
- This case is one of 15 Florida reports filed in 1977.
- Cigar craft made up 5.2% of 1970s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.