CaseLight2003
Coalinga, CA, USA
While driving on I-5 north of Colinga exit (Hwy 198) around 10 pm observed increasing brignt light that caused entire area to light up.
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-07-09
- Where
- Coalinga, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 to 10 seconds
- Geo
- 36.140, -120.360 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-coalinga-ca-2003-bab96e
In context
- One of 15 documented reports from Coalinga, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 599 sightings in 2003.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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