CaseCigar2017
La Mesa, CA, USA
Massive, Cigar-Shaped White Light Hovering
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-15
- Where
- La Mesa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 32.768, -117.023 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-la-mesa-ca-2017-5e5ba7
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- La Mesa, CA has 38 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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