CaseCigar1968
Oelwein, IA, USA
a cigar shaped craft with muti-colored lights around it traveling toward the southwest absolutely silently and at a rather slow speed.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-09-15
- Where
- Oelwein, IA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.673, -91.913 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-oelwein-ia-1968-949337
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Oelwein, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 5 sightings in 1968.
- Cigar sightings ran at 7% during the 1960s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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