CaseCigar1974
San Jose, CA, USA
A report from San Jose, CA in April 1974 described lights in the sky observed by students at an elementary school, lasting 30 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-04-06
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-san-jose-ca-1974-328d4f
In context
- This is one of 277 reports logged in San Jose, CA.
- This case is one of 33 California reports filed in 1974.
- Cigar craft made up 5.2% of 1970s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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