UFOMYST
CaseCigar2021

Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Unusual aircraft only in mornings

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-06-13
Where
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
36.974, -122.031 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-santa-cruz-ca-2021-16aa41
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Santa Cruz, CA shows up 76 times across the archive.
  • 330 reports came from California in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 2.6% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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