CaseLight1972
Trinidad, CA, USA
A witness in Trinidad, California reported a light initially thought to be a satellite that changed directions too quickly for normal orbital motion, during a ten-minute sighting in November 1972.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (196 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-11-01
- Where
- Trinidad, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.059, -124.143 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-trinidad-ca-1972-111ced
In context
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Trinidad, CA.
- This case is one of 20 California reports filed in 1972.
- Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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