CaseUnknown1996
Shafter, CA, USA
Object goes through shinihg hole! ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax?? PD))
Report quality: Low2/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 1996-03-14
- Where
- Shafter, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 35.501, -119.272 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-shafter-ca-1996-bddc75
In context
- Shafter, CA shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 136 reports came from California in 1996.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.