CaseLight1998
San Diego (Point Loma/Ocean Beach area), CA, USA
As two copters were approaching airport from the West, (along I-5) the light shrunk X2 & rapidly descended into the cover of a Star Pin
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-16
- Where
- San Diego (Point Loma/Ocean Beach area), CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 to 15 Minutes
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-diego-point-loma-ocean-beach-area-ca-1998-72a51b
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in San Diego (Point Loma/Ocean Beach area), CA.
- This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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