UFOMYST
CaseCigar1952

Piedra Blanka (Los Padres National Forest), CA, USA

I was camping with my school at Piedra Blanka in Los Padres National Forest. We all slept in sleeping bags jus out under the stars. No

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-06-15
Where
Piedra Blanka (Los Padres National Forest), CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10Minutes
Geo
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Slug
cigar-over-piedra-blanka-los-padres-national-forest-ca-1952-d794b3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1952

    The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round

    United States, focal point Washington D.C.

    The biggest official flap in U.S. history. On the weekends of July 19-20 and 26-27, unknowns tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB — with simultaneous visual and airborne confirmations —…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Piedra Blanka (Los Padres National Forest), CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 7 sightings in 1952.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 7.3% during the 1950s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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