CaseLight1958
La Mesa, CA, USA
At first we thought it was a falling star. Then we realized it was coming in side ways from the east over the freeway (125) and it was
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1958-12-01
- Where
- La Mesa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 32.768, -117.023 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-la-mesa-ca-1958-e6fe71
In context
- This is one of 38 reports logged in La Mesa, CA.
- This case is one of 8 California reports filed in 1958.
- Light craft made up 11.5% of 1950s 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.