CaseLight1959
Goldfield, NV, USA
In 1959, a witness in Goldfield, Nevada, reported a light hovering over their pickup truck, which they said appeared to lift from the sand, within about a minute.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (162 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-09-15
- Where
- Goldfield, NV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 37.709, -117.236 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-goldfield-nv-1959-053518
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In context
- Goldfield, NV shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Nevada in 1959.
- In the 1950s, 11.5% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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