CaseCigar1998
El Cajon, CA, USA
Observed object, nothing around it. Pulsing red light, bright-dim-bright-dim. Moved slowly toward us. Through binoculars, could see m
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-04-10
- Where
- El Cajon, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 32.795, -116.963 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-el-cajon-ca-1998-949d93
In context
- El Cajon, CA shows up 87 times across the archive.
- 232 reports came from California in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 2.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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