San Fernando, CA, USA
Large object that spawned 8, 10 or more bright saucer-type bright objects
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-02-26
- Where
- San Fernando, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 34.282, -118.439 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-san-fernando-ca-2008-845a9a
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 13 reports logged in San Fernando, CA.
- This case is one of 709 California reports filed in 2008.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.