CaseLight1987
San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA
Flat ribbon of yellow light cuts swath across nighttime sky, then explodes.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1987-07-15
- Where
- San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 Seconds
- Geo
- 33.502, -117.663 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-juan-capistrano-ca-1987-0272ba
In context
- One of 13 documented reports from San Juan Capistrano, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 25 sightings in 1987.
- Light sightings ran at 11% during the 1980s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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