CaseCigar1967

Hermosa Beach, CA, USA

5 Red Glowing Cigar Shaped Ships Sighted at Hermosa Beach in 1967

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1967-09-08
Where
Hermosa Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
33.862, -118.400 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-hermosa-beach-ca-1967-093991
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

In context

  • This is one of 11 reports logged in Hermosa Beach, CA.
  • This case is one of 27 California reports filed in 1967.
  • Cigar craft made up 7% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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