Bakersfield, CA, USA
I was looking up at the sky for Hale-Bop,when from the south a round yellowish light zoomed across the sky at a very high 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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-15
- Where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 35.373, -119.019 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bakersfield-ca-1997-27dd67
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 140 reports logged in Bakersfield, CA.
- This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.