CaseCigar1997
San Diego, CA, USA
On July 3 1997 my 2 brothers and I saw a cigar shape going northwest it lasted a few min.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-04
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-san-diego-ca-1997-1b8478
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- San Diego, CA has 516 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 152 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 2.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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