UFOMYST
CaseCigar2012

San Francisco, CA, USA

Rotating dark object that climbed in altitude and traveled southeast

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-01-25
Where
San Francisco, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
13:55
Geo
37.775, -122.419 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-san-francisco-ca-2012-9b222b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

January 2012 was a busy month for San Francisco, CA: 4 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 241 reports logged in San Francisco, CA.
  • This case is one of 758 California reports filed in 2012.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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