San Diego, CA, USA
A sighting of one silver or white enlongated cylindrical or cigar shaped craft without any visual control surfaces heading west to east
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1944-01-01
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-san-diego-ca-1944-9ec4cc
Part of a wave
The Foo Fighters
European and Pacific theaters of WWII
Allied (and, files later showed, Axis) aircrews reported glowing balls of light pacing their aircraft through evasive maneuvers. Each side suspected the other's secret weapon. The name came from the Smokey Stover comic…
In context
- San Diego, CA has 516 sightings on file here.
- 1944 brought 1 reports from California.
- The 1940s skewed 7.8% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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