CaseCigar1980
Port Townsend, WA, USA
3 silver, shiny, cigar-shaped craft over Discovery Bay, WA, hovered, accelerated at incredible rate, and disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-10-15
- Where
- Port Townsend, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 48.117, -122.761 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-port-townsend-wa-1980-258766
In context
- This is one of 23 reports logged in Port Townsend, WA.
- This case is one of 16 Washington reports filed in 1980.
- Cigar craft made up 3.9% of 1980s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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