CaseCigar1971
FREEWAY BY AIR FORCE BASE, CA, USA
A witness near a California freeway by an Air Force base reported what first looked like a flare, then a cigar-shaped object roughly five stories tall, over thirty minutes in September 1971.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (190 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-09-01
- Where
- FREEWAY BY AIR FORCE BASE, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 MINUTES
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cigar-over-freeway-by-air-force-base-ca-1971-854e4c
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in FREEWAY BY AIR FORCE BASE, CA.
- This case is one of 23 California reports filed in 1971.
- Cigar craft made up 5.2% of 1970s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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