CaseLight1959
Mohave, CA, USA
In 1959, a witness in Mohave, California, reported lights overhead as their car's headlights and engine reportedly cut off, an event lasting about two minutes.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (159 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-08-15
- Where
- Mohave, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-mohave-ca-1959-c843b2
In context
- Mohave, CA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from California in 1959.
- In the 1950s, 11.5% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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