CaseCigar1999
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
An orange stick shaped object paused at about 80 deg. and slowly went down over harbor area to the south.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 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
- 10 sec.
- Geo
- 34.421, -119.698 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-santa-barbara-ca-1999-ebcf20
Local cluster
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Santa Barbara, CA in September 1999 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Santa Barbara, CA has 117 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 407 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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