UFOMYST
CaseCigar1977

Hillsborough, CA, USA

Cigar shaped ufo moving at speed of falling star but stoped.

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 (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-07-12
Where
Hillsborough, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
4to5 sec
Geo
37.574, -122.379 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-hillsborough-ca-1977-3cbbf6
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Hillsborough, CA has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 44 reports from California.
  • The 1970s skewed 5.2% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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