CaseFlash1998
Novato, CA, USA
Strange oscillating white and red flash seen over Novato, CA, 10:15 PM on Friday, March 13, 1998.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-13
- Where
- Novato, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3 min.
- Geo
- 38.107, -122.570 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-novato-ca-1998-b5c95e
In context
- This is one of 23 reports logged in Novato, CA.
- This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
- Flash craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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