CaseCylinder2004
San Gabriel, CA, USA
WAS LOOKING AT THE MOON THEN I SAW IT
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-24
- Where
- San Gabriel, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 34.096, -118.106 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-san-gabriel-ca-2004-ed9cba
Wave
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
- San Gabriel, CA has 12 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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