CaseLight2002
Santa Clara, CA, USA
An extremely bright round light in the sky about 10 degrees from the zenith, was observed shortly after dusk. The diameter and height o
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-19
- Where
- Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 37.354, -121.955 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-santa-clara-ca-2002-8dd532
In context
- Santa Clara, CA has 37 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 430 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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