CaseLight1996
Salinas, CA, USA
Young man and girlfriend see 2 tiny, distinctly pink-colored points of light streaking from N to S in W sky. Moved oddly, "floated."
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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-03-23
- Where
- Salinas, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 50 sec.
- Geo
- 36.678, -121.656 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-salinas-ca-1996-57e495
In context
- Salinas, CA has 51 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 136 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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