CaseCigar1981

Grass Valley, CA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Grass Valley, CA, USA
Start: 1981-05-15
Location: Grass Valley, CA, USA

Grass Valley CA, early 80's - Silvery silent slow-flying torpedo-shaped UFO seen over tree-tops.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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)
Moderate witness text (96 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1981-05-15
Where: Grass Valley, CA, USA
Shape: Cigar
Duration: 3-5 sec
Geo: 39.219, -121.061 · exact
Slug: cigar-over-grass-valley-ca-1981-d33b48

In context

Grass Valley, CA shows up 34 times across the archive.
35 reports came from California in 1981.
In the 1980s, 3.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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