UFOMYST
CaseCigar1973

Huntington Beach, CA, USA

300' cigar,silver,10 windows w/soft corners, 200' off ground, traveling from ocean inland at less than 50 mph.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-15
Where
Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
33.660, -117.999 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-huntington-beach-ca-1973-e1504f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

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In context

  • Huntington Beach, CA has 97 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 18 reports from California.
  • The 1970s skewed 5.2% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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