UFOMYST
CaseCigar2009

Redding, CA, USA

Brightly illuminated thin cigar. ((NUFORC Note: ISS sighting. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-07-25
Where
Redding, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
40.587, -122.392 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-redding-ca-2009-c4cd44
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

July 2009 was a busy month for Redding, CA: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 103 reports logged in Redding, CA.
  • This case is one of 647 California reports filed in 2009.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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