CaseCigar1968
Oakland, CA, USA
A witness in Oakland, California reported a large cigar-shaped object hovering in plain sight on a clear day in July 1968 before it suddenly vanished, during a five-minute sighting.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (181 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-07-21
- Where
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.804, -122.271 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-oakland-ca-1968-715d14
In context
- Oakland, CA shows up 84 times across the archive.
- 32 reports came from California in 1968.
- In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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