CaseLight1999
Mission Viejo, CA, USA
A red light about the size and shape of a star moving at about the speed of a shooting star but with no tail. As I watched it it slowed
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-20
- Where
- Mission Viejo, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 33.600, -117.672 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-mission-viejo-ca-1999-e864b8
In context
- Mission Viejo, CA has 36 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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