CaseLight1976
Palo Alto, CA, USA
A large amber ball of light responding to spotlight.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1350s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-06-22
- Where
- Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15-30 min
- Geo
- 37.442, -122.143 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-palo-alto-ca-1976-ab3e8c
In context
- Palo Alto, CA shows up 25 times across the archive.
- 36 reports came from California in 1976.
- In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.