CaseCigar1956
Vista, CA, USA
A witness in Vista, California reported a bright orange, cigar-shaped object estimated at several miles long, observed for 15 to 20 minutes in June 1956.
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (153 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-06-15
- Where
- Vista, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 33.200, -117.243 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-vista-ca-1956-95e0bc
In context
- Vista, CA shows up 41 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from California in 1956.
- In the 1950s, 7.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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