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CaseCigar2021

Rialto, CA, USA

Was waiting for light to change I looked up and saw a shiny shape in the sky in front of pickup my phone and took picture when I looked

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-21
Where
Rialto, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
34.106, -117.370 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-rialto-ca-2021-850ccd
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

  • Rialto, CA shows up 22 times across the archive.
  • 330 reports came from California in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 2.6% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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