CaseCigar2002
San Marcos, CA, USA
I was able to capture an UFO using still photography
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-15
- Where
- San Marcos, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- momentary
- Geo
- 33.143, -117.166 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-san-marcos-ca-2002-d6fa66
In context
- San Marcos, CA shows up 26 times across the archive.
- 430 reports came from California in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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