CaseCigar1968
Oakland, CA, USA
Large object on a clear day completely vanished after hovering in plain sight
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-07-21
- Where
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.804, -122.271 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-oakland-ca-1968-715d14
In context
- Oakland, CA shows up 84 times across the archive.
- 32 reports came from California in 1968.
- In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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