CaseLight2003
Bakersfield, CA, USA
Bright white light (twice the size of Mars) moving slowly in the sky and then fading out.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-09-21
- Where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 35.373, -119.019 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bakersfield-ca-2003-5a08f4
In context
- This is one of 140 reports logged in Bakersfield, CA.
- This case is one of 599 California reports filed in 2003.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% 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.