CaseCigar1968
Vandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Witnesses reported cigar-shaped objects observed during missile launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California between 1965 and 1978, with individual sightings lasting about thirty minutes each.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (197 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-06-01
- Where
- Vandenberg AFB, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 minutes (each)
- Geo
- 34.737, -120.584 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-vandenberg-afb-ca-1968-f5b299
In context
- One of 4 documented reports from Vandenberg AFB, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 32 sightings in 1968.
- Cigar sightings ran at 7% during the 1960s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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