CaseLight2000
Ridgecrest, CA, USA
Orange, transluscet, plasma-like sphere traveled overhead from west to east, observed 10 sec.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-07-16
- Where
- Ridgecrest, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 35.622, -117.671 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ridgecrest-ca-2000-ed8598
In context
- One of 37 documented reports from Ridgecrest, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 439 sightings in 2000.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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