CaseCigar1951
Palm Springs, CA, USA
A witness in Palm Springs, California reported a bluish-white, worm-like light, observed for about an hour and a half on January 20, 1951.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (138 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1951-01-20
- Where
- Palm Springs, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- one and a half hours
- Geo
- 33.830, -116.545 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-palm-springs-ca-1951-85cb2b
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In context
- Palm Springs, CA has 83 sightings on file here.
- 1951 brought 5 reports from California.
- The 1950s skewed 7.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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