CaseCigar1968
Clovis, CA, USA
Witnesses in Clovis, California reported more than twenty cigar-shaped objects flying north over an Air Force base near Fresno in spring 1968, during a sighting lasting about one minute.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (186 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-06-01
- Where
- Clovis, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 MINUTE
- Geo
- 36.825, -119.703 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-clovis-ca-1968-8e4a9d
In context
- Clovis, CA shows up 47 times across the archive.
- 32 reports came from California in 1968.
- In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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