CaseUnknown1996
Edwards AFB, CA, USA
Controller at Edwards AFB reports receiving two calls from local law enforcement re orange fireball. Radar neg. (Missle launch??)
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 (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-02-24
- Where
- Edwards AFB, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 min.
- Geo
- 34.916, -117.935 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-edwards-afb-ca-1996-be3669
In context
- Edwards AFB, CA shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 136 reports came from California in 1996.
Report
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