CaseLight1986
San Jose, CA, USA
Red, green and gold light amazes multiple witnesses over Santa Clara Valley
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-10-14
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-jose-ca-1986-bcf4d9
In context
- This is one of 277 reports logged in San Jose, CA.
- This case is one of 27 California reports filed in 1986.
- Light craft made up 11% of 1980s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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