Paso Robles, CA, USA
Slow moving craft with search beam and iridescence blue trail lasting 5 minutes. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-11-07
- Where
- Paso Robles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 35.627, -120.691 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-paso-robles-ca-2015-7ad860
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
- This is one of 22 reports logged in Paso Robles, CA.
- This case is one of 814 California reports filed in 2015.
- Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
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