UFOMYST
CaseCigar2008

Paso Robles, CA, USA

fireball followed by unusual aircraft

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-09-06
Where
Paso Robles, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
12 seconds
Geo
35.627, -120.691 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-paso-robles-ca-2008-9f140d
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 22 documented reports from Paso Robles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 709 sightings in 2008.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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