UFOMYST
CaseCigar1965

Philadelphia, PA, USA

A cylinder shaped vessel decended then hovered. It was the size of a bus but larger in diameter. The craft had no wings, windows, tail,

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1965-06-25
Where
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
39.952, -75.164 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-philadelphia-pa-1965-3448fa
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • One of 203 documented reports from Philadelphia, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 22 sightings in 1965.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 7% during the 1960s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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