CaseCigar1951
Oklahoma (northeastern part; in-flight sighting), OK, USA
A pilot and crew reported a cigar-shaped object flying alongside a commercial airliner over northeastern Oklahoma, observed for about five minutes in June 1951.
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 (160 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1951-06-01
- Where
- Oklahoma (northeastern part; in-flight sighting), OK, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.468, -97.516 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-oklahoma-northeastern-part-in-flight-sighting-ok-1951-cba8f9
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Oklahoma (northeastern part; in-flight sighting), OK.
- This case is one of 2 Oklahoma reports filed in 1951.
- Cigar craft made up 7.3% of 1950s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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