CaseCigar1998
San Juan Islands, WA, USA
A cigar shaped object was less than a quarter of a mile from our a/c clear visability and stationay then vanished.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-16
- Where
- San Juan Islands, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15sec
- Geo
- 48.583, -122.968 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-san-juan-islands-wa-1998-6b96d9
In context
- San Juan Islands, WA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 147 reports came from Washington in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 2.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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