CaseDisk1986
Ridgecrest, CA, USA
Saucer shaped UFO, lights, no sound, 20 minute observation
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-10-15
- Where
- Ridgecrest, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 35.622, -117.671 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-ridgecrest-ca-1986-e381ae
In context
- Ridgecrest, CA has 37 sightings on file here.
- 1986 brought 27 reports from California.
- The 1980s skewed 14.3% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
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.