CaseCigar1961
Wendens Ambo/Essex (UK/England), United Kingdom
In 1961, a witness near Wendens Ambo, Essex, England, reported a cigar-shaped object traveling east to west with an impression of unusual speed, over 40 to 50 seconds.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (167 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-08-10
- Where
- Wendens Ambo/Essex (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 40/50 seconds
- Geo
- 52.004, 0.201 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-wendens-ambo-essex-uk-england-1961-e5343e
In context
- Wendens Ambo/Essex (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from United Kingdom in 1961.
- In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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