CaseLight1999
Carpinteria (near), CA, USA
What was thought an aircraft, suddenly stopped, did a series of acrobatic tricks, tremendous speed from standstill, no noise. Suddenly
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-10-30
- Where
- Carpinteria (near), CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 mins
- Geo
- 34.399, -119.518 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-carpinteria-near-ca-1999-35220b
In context
- Carpinteria (near), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 407 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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