CaseTeardrop1998
Acampo, CA, USA
An orange colored, teardrop shaped object trailed by white sparks appeared in the Eastern sky at about 130 degrees from the horizon.
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-25
- Where
- Acampo, CA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 2-3 sec
- Geo
- 38.175, -121.279 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-acampo-ca-1998-12ebe7
In context
- Acampo, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 232 reports came from California in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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