UFOMYST
CaseCigar2019

Corte Madera, CA, USA

Late night coming home,top down, cigar shaped craft,bright white flew overhead about 500 feet,at an incredible rate of speed,then lost

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-05-15
Where
Corte Madera, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
~3-4 seconds
Geo
37.925, -122.527 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-corte-madera-ca-2019-9a4641
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

  • One of 12 documented reports from Corte Madera, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 510 sightings in 2019.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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