UFOMYST
CaseCigar2020

Merced, CA, USA

Daughter called me on phone and told me to look up strait into the sky.Wife and I observed cigar shaped craft iminating a hazy orange a

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 840s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-07-18
Where
Merced, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
14 minutes
Geo
37.302, -120.483 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-merced-ca-2020-938099
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In context

  • One of 34 documented reports from Merced, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 622 sightings in 2020.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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