CaseUnknown1996
Bakersfield, CA, USA
Man sees enormous blue light pass S to N in W sky. Obj. flashed, turned pure white, streak N, then break up into pieces. 1/10th moon.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-04-15
- Where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 4 sec.
- Geo
- 35.373, -119.019 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-bakersfield-ca-1996-c42c5e
In context
- Bakersfield, CA shows up 140 times across the archive.
- 136 reports came from California in 1996.
Report
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