CaseCigar1980
Eureka, CA, USA
Rode the schoolbus with friend Joel to his house after school. When we stepped off the bus, we saw a shining craft in the sky, an elong
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-05-15
- Where
- Eureka, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 minutes?
- Geo
- 40.802, -124.164 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-eureka-ca-1980-1aa1c5
In context
- Eureka, CA shows up 42 times across the archive.
- 36 reports came from California in 1980.
- In the 1980s, 3.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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