CaseLight2002
Manteca, CA, USA
bright light with white and blue trail ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-14
- Where
- Manteca, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- for about 5 min
- Geo
- 37.797, -121.216 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-manteca-ca-2002-8d74a7
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In context
- Manteca, CA has 24 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 430 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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