CaseCigar2012
El Centro, CA, USA
UFO acted as a vehicle.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (23 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-07
- Where
- El Centro, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 32.792, -115.563 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-el-centro-ca-2012-5eea62
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
- El Centro, CA shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 758 reports came from California in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.