UFOMYST
CaseCigar1977

Los Angeles, CA, USA

I was only 6 but I'll never gorget the silent metal stick that silently flew over me as I waited in the car that night on my birthday.

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-05-28
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
few seconds
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-los-angeles-ca-1977-5827e4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Los Angeles, CA has 521 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 44 reports from California.
  • The 1970s skewed 5.2% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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