CaseLight2002
Modesto, CA, USA
Four Fighter jets chasing a bright light in Modesto, CA
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 (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-07-09
- Where
- Modesto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.639, -120.997 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-modesto-ca-2002-60fe9b
In context
- Modesto, CA has 114 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 430 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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