CaseLight1988
Baker, CA, USA
Ball of light (3' wide) paces car on right side of freeway, then bolts 90 degrees to horizon at unbelievable speed
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-07-01
- Where
- Baker, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 35.265, -116.074 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-baker-ca-1988-fdf924
In context
- One of 9 documented reports from Baker, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 30 sightings in 1988.
- Light sightings ran at 11% during the 1980s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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