UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

Venice, FL, USA

"Bouncing Ball" follows car in Venice Florida

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-30
Where
Venice, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
27.100, -82.454 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-venice-fl-1997-05631d
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 40 reports logged in Venice, FL.
  • This case is one of 51 Florida reports filed in 1997.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.3% of 1990s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.