UFOMYST
CaseCigar1978

Oak Harbor, WA, USA

Gigantic , silent zepplin with fantastic speed.

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-04
Where
Oak Harbor, WA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 to 15 min
Geo
48.293, -122.643 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-oak-harbor-wa-1978-f97b8f
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In context

  • One of 27 documented reports from Oak Harbor, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 15 sightings in 1978.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 5.2% during the 1970s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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