CaseLight1998

Joshua Tree National Park, CA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Joshua Tree National Park, CA, USA
Start: 1998-11-17
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, CA, USA

Short duration UFO seen descending from approx 45 degrees above Northern horizon in a strange back and forth motion. Slowly lost lumino

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (135 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
1 other report from the same city within 3 days

When: 1998-11-17
Where: Joshua Tree National Park, CA, USA
Shape: Light
Duration: appr. 30 sec.
Geo: 33.873, -115.901 · exact
Slug: light-over-joshua-tree-national-park-ca-1998-1dff7b

In context

Joshua Tree National Park, CA has 7 sightings on file here.
1998 brought 232 reports from California.
The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

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