CaseChanging1998
Bakersfield, CA, USA
At 17:10 hrs I was driving west heading into downtown and had a clear view of the horizon. Off to the south I saw a silver cylindrical
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-21
- Where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.373, -119.019 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-bakersfield-ca-1998-59f0c1
In context
- One of 140 documented reports from Bakersfield, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 232 sightings in 1998.
- Changing sightings ran at 1.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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