CaseCigar1977
Texas (empty desert), TX, USA
UFO "cigar" crosses immense Texas sky
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-09-10
- Where
- Texas (empty desert), TX, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 29.384, -94.903 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-texas-empty-desert-tx-1977-e0e6ef
Wave
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In context
- Texas (empty desert), TX shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 16 reports came from Texas in 1977.
- In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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