Sonoma (near), CA, USA
Near Sonoma, in the Central California mountains, on June 6, 1966, a witness reported a cigar-shaped object hovering in place for about one to two hours.
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (153 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-06
- Where
- Sonoma (near), CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1-2 hours
- Geo
- 38.292, -122.458 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-sonoma-near-ca-1966-63bae9
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Sonoma (near), CA.
- This case is one of 23 California reports filed in 1966.
- Cigar craft made up 7% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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