CaseUnknown1996
Fresno, CA, USA
Couple witness "huge black thing" over parking lot in downtown Fresno. Emitted steam or smoke in three directions. Many lights.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-05-07
- Where
- Fresno, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 36.748, -119.772 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-fresno-ca-1996-d70906
In context
- Fresno, CA has 171 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 136 reports from California.
Report
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