CaseLight1996
Bastrop, LA, USA
due south of bastropA bright light was seen in the sky, and was thought to be a star until it started moving. It moved back and for
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-12-29
- Where
- Bastrop, LA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 32.778, -91.911 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bastrop-la-1996-85af0c
In context
- Bastrop, LA shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from Louisiana in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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