CaseCigar1956
Norfolk, VA, USA
A witness reported a cigar-shaped object hovering over Interstate 264 in Norfolk, Virginia for about a minute and a half in September 1956.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (139 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-09-09
- Where
- Norfolk, VA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1.5 minutes
- Geo
- 36.847, -76.285 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-norfolk-va-1956-88d375
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In context
- Norfolk, VA has 52 sightings on file here.
- 1956 brought 1 reports from Virginia.
- The 1950s skewed 7.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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