CaseCigar2002
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Low Flying Cigar shaped object with no lights at night followed by helicopter(s)
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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 (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-05-08
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-los-angeles-ca-2002-a20fc1
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Los Angeles, CA in May 2002 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Los Angeles, CA has 521 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 430 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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