CaseLight1998
Indio, CA, USA
Bright light or dot with orange tail shot upwards and south across the sky. Tail stopped and so did light. Hovered in sky, then flew pa
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-29
- Where
- Indio, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-5 min.
- Geo
- 33.721, -116.217 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-indio-ca-1998-e49880
In context
- Indio, CA shows up 33 times across the archive.
- 232 reports came from California in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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