CaseLight1999
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Bright light appearing in the sky which then accelerated at a rapid rate till it was no longer visible.
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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-04
- Where
- Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 8-10 seconds
- Geo
- 37.354, -121.955 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-santa-clara-ca-1999-e1c0b1
In context
- Santa Clara, CA has 37 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 407 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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