CaseCigar2003
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Silver cigar-shaped UFO hangs over Santa Monica Beach
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-04-10
- Where
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 34.019, -118.491 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-santa-monica-ca-2003-170850
In context
- This is one of 61 reports logged in Santa Monica, CA.
- This case is one of 599 California reports filed in 2003.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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