CaseCigar2014

Sacramento, CA, USA

At roughly 3:30 a.m. pacific standard time I witnessed three lights moving in a westward direction at longitude -121.342 latitude 38.70

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-02-16
Where
Sacramento, CA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1 minute
Geo
38.582, -121.494 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-sacramento-ca-2014-8f22bb
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Sacramento, CA in February 2014 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Sacramento, CA has 304 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 869 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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