UFOMYST
CaseCigar1977

Williamsburg, VA, USA

My radio went dead just as my neighbors saw something unusual in the sky.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-07-20
Where
Williamsburg, VA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
37.271, -76.707 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-williamsburg-va-1977-5d2f82
Wave

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In context

  • One of 27 documented reports from Williamsburg, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 2 sightings in 1977.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 5.2% during the 1970s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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