CaseCigar1969
Olney, IL, USA
A cigar-shaped object about the size of a fifteen-hundred-square-foot home hovered roughly two hundred feet above a house near Olney, Illinois, for ten minutes in October 1969.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (176 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-10-07
- Where
- Olney, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 min
- Geo
- 38.731, -88.085 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-olney-il-1969-5a0496
In context
- Olney, IL shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from Illinois in 1969.
- In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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