CaseCigar1972
Salinas, CA, USA
Huge object. At least 2 football fields long. Altitude approx. 500 ft. Observed moving slowly westerly direct. No lights. No sound. Und
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-03-01
- Where
- Salinas, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 - 3 min.
- Geo
- 36.678, -121.656 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-salinas-ca-1972-35df26
In context
- Salinas, CA shows up 51 times across the archive.
- 20 reports came from California in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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