CaseCigar2012
El Centro, CA, USA
N CALIF LOOK UP NOW, MOVING QUICK, TUES APR 18, 2012 8:34 PM
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-04-18
- Where
- El Centro, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 32.792, -115.563 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-el-centro-ca-2012-c47ef0
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 21 documented reports from El Centro, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 758 sightings in 2012.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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