CaseCone1996
Irvine, CA, USA
strange bright orange cone(with pointed top) slow drifting in the sky
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-03-26
- Where
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 5 mins
- Geo
- 33.669, -117.823 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-irvine-ca-1996-153b10
In context
- One of 85 documented reports from Irvine, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 136 sightings in 1996.
- Cone sightings ran at 0.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 0.4%).
Report
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