CaseCigar1976
Simonstown (South Africa), South Africa
unlike anything i had ever seen
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-01-04
- Where
- Simonstown (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- -34.193, 18.436 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-simonstown-south-africa-1976-2cf1d6
In context
- Simonstown (South Africa), South Africa shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from South Africa in 1976.
- In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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