CaseLight2001
San Jose/Gilroy/Salinas, CA, USA
Strange glowing lights scattered by appx 6 miles apart seemed to hover and then disappear and reappear
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-09-30
- Where
- San Jose/Gilroy/Salinas, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5-10 min each
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-jose-gilroy-salinas-ca-2001-a88d53
In context
- San Jose/Gilroy/Salinas, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 379 reports came from California in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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