CaseFlash1987
San Diego, CA, USA
flash like daylight lit up everything for 1 second, not lightning
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1987-11-15
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-san-diego-ca-1987-eb5665
In context
- San Diego, CA shows up 516 times across the archive.
- 25 reports came from California in 1987.
- In the 1980s, 0.6% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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