CaseCigar1964
Covina, CA, USA
A witness in Covina, California described a slowly rotating, metallic, cigar-shaped object flying at low altitude during daylight in May 1964, lasting about five 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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (170 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1964-05-15
- Where
- Covina, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 MIN.
- Geo
- 34.090, -117.890 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-covina-ca-1964-e022f9
In context
- Covina, CA shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from California in 1964.
- In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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