Morgan Hill, CA, USA
Strange noise, observed a long, spindle shaped, silver cigar object with greenish exhaust.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-01-03
- Where
- Morgan Hill, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 37.130, -121.654 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-morgan-hill-ca-2014-199df9
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
- Morgan Hill, CA shows up 19 times across the archive.
- 869 reports came from California in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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