CaseCigar2000
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
I saw the flying cigar! It was flying low, toward the north. It flew right over me. I watched it from the south and looked real closely
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-03-27
- Where
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-santa-cruz-ca-2000-3bca77
In context
- One of 76 documented reports from Santa Cruz, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 439 sightings in 2000.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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