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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