CaseCigar1986
Redding, CA, USA
In September 1986 I was working for the National Park Service at the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area just west of Redding, CA. I
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-09-15
- Where
- Redding, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.587, -122.392 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-redding-ca-1986-28ad37
In context
- Redding, CA has 103 sightings on file here.
- 1986 brought 27 reports from California.
- The 1980s skewed 3.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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