CaseCigar1968

Pasadena, TX, USA

A witness in Pasadena, Texas reported a cigar-shaped object with what appeared to be its tail end on fire in June 1968, during a two-minute sighting.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (149 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1968-06-15
Where
Pasadena, TX, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 min
Geo
29.691, -95.209 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-pasadena-tx-1968-c1dc46

In context

  • Pasadena, TX shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 16 reports came from Texas in 1968.
  • In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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