CaseCylinder1996
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Strange craft observed over Santa Cruz CA.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-04-11
- Where
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-santa-cruz-ca-1996-30c819
In context
- One of 76 documented reports from Santa Cruz, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 136 sightings in 1996.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.4% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.6%).
Report
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