Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
After seemingly power shortage,walked outside &saw in air above a craft that steadily moved across, paused eye level, then dropped down
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-26
- Where
- Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10
- Geo
- 34.171, -118.838 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-thousand-oaks-ca-2013-f941c3
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 38 documented reports from Thousand Oaks, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 728 sightings in 2013.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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