UFOMYST
CaseCigar2017

Vacaville or Fairfield (?) (near), CA, USA

Shiny with sun reflecting on what looked like cigar shaped object, hovering for 10-20 seconds, then line of extremely bright lights fla

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-30
Where
Vacaville or Fairfield (?) (near), CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
40 seconds
Geo
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Slug
cigar-over-vacaville-or-fairfield-near-ca-2017-1184be
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Vacaville or Fairfield (?) (near), CA.
  • This case is one of 594 California reports filed in 2017.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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