CaseCigar1998
San Jose, CA, USA
Driving south on Hwy 85, on way to work, saw gleaming silver cigar shaped object floating beneath a cloud.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-02-15
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-san-jose-ca-1998-de1057
In context
- San Jose, CA has 277 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 2.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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