UFOMYST
CaseCigar2009

Corona, CA, USA

blue and green light surrounding cigar shaped object

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-25
Where
Corona, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1 second
Geo
33.875, -117.566 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-corona-ca-2009-1b250a
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

  • Corona, CA shows up 72 times across the archive.
  • 647 reports came from California in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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