CaseLight1985
San Carlos, CA, USA
I observed a ball of light trailing Space Shuttle, then watched in astonishment as it streaked behind the hills.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1985-07-31
- Where
- San Carlos, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 37.507, -122.261 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-carlos-ca-1985-d7860a
In context
- San Carlos, CA has 8 sightings on file here.
- 1985 brought 31 reports from California.
- The 1980s skewed 11% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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