CaseCigar2003
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil
slow moving cigar shaped craft that flashed a large area intense bright white/blue light every few seconds
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-03-04
- Where
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 - 5 minutes
- Geo
- -22.906, -43.182 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-rio-de-janeiro-brazil-2003-3d25dc
In context
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 8 reports from Brazil.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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