CaseFlash1988
Riverside, CA, USA
Unidentified patch of light in the night sky
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (44 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-09-20
- Where
- Riverside, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 6-7 seconds
- Geo
- 33.953, -117.396 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-riverside-ca-1988-0f6aea
In context
- This is one of 117 reports logged in Riverside, CA.
- This case is one of 30 California reports filed in 1988.
- Flash craft made up 0.6% of 1980s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
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.