CaseCigar1999
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Bright orange vertical cigar shaped something at 45 deg. slowly drop into ocean?
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-01
- Where
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 sec.
- Geo
- 34.421, -119.698 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-santa-barbara-ca-1999-2f7c41
Local cluster
Local cluster
September 1999 was a busy month for Santa Barbara, CA: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 117 reports logged in Santa Barbara, CA.
- This case is one of 407 California reports filed in 1999.
- Cigar craft made up 2.3% of 1990s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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