CaseUnknown1996
Gardena, CA, USA
Woman sees an "orange-yellow light w/ long tail." Light suddenly dims, emits smoke, reappears as amber white light.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-05-08
- Where
- Gardena, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 33.888, -118.309 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-gardena-ca-1996-26e278
In context
- Gardena, CA has 13 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 136 reports from California.
Report
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