Salinas, CA, USA
Was driving west of Salinas and saw a dark-colored, cigar shaped craft in the sky staying still. It then hid in the clouds.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-04-11
- Where
- Salinas, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 36.678, -121.656 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-salinas-ca-2019-94f06d
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Salinas, CA in April 2019 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Salinas, CA has 51 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 510 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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