UFOMYST
CaseCigar2012

Cerritos, CA, USA

I was driving north on Studebaker Road in the City of Cerritos, California. I approached the intersection of 183rd and Studebaker Road

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-12
Where
Cerritos, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
60 seconds
Geo
33.858, -118.065 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-cerritos-ca-2012-842e97
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Cerritos, CA shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 758 reports came from California in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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