CaseCigar1998
Rome (Italy), Italy
luminous and silent cigar flew low in a summer night along the freeway Rome-Ostia
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-01
- Where
- Rome (Italy), Italy
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 sec
- Geo
- 41.892, 12.511 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-rome-italy-1998-da46d8
In context
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Rome (Italy), Italy.
- This case is one of 2 Italy reports filed in 1998.
- Cigar craft made up 2.3% of 1990s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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