UFOMYST
CaseCigar2015

Malibu, CA, USA

April 4th, 2015, a plane flew southeast over Malibu and a silver tube with a fuzzy white dot in front of it and crossed the planes path

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-04-04
Where
Malibu, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1-2 Seconds
Geo
34.026, -118.780 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-malibu-ca-2015-b5eebc
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 28 documented reports from Malibu, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 814 sightings in 2015.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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