CaseCigar1969
Biola, CA, USA
Near Biola, California, in August 1969, a witness described a cigar-shaped object roughly five hundred feet long emitting bright white light from its underside for about three minutes.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (184 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-08-15
- Where
- Biola, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 36.802, -120.016 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-biola-ca-1969-7e21e7
In context
- Biola, CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1969 brought 26 reports from California.
- The 1960s skewed 7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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