UFOMYST
CaseCigar1978

Pasadena, CA, USA

I submitted the following to a French UMMO site isn1997. For years I have been trying to track down a craft's symbol my 4 yr.ol

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-05-05
Where
Pasadena, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
several minutes
Geo
34.148, -118.145 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-pasadena-ca-1978-7e7c47
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • This is one of 56 reports logged in Pasadena, CA.
  • This case is one of 60 California reports filed in 1978.
  • Cigar craft made up 5.2% of 1970s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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