CaseLight1999
Porterville, CA, USA
BRIGHT LIGHT MOVED SLOWLY, SOUTH ACROSS THE SKY, I WAS LOOKING EAST, THEN IT SEEMED TO FLIP OVER AS IT BECAME BRIGHTER, THEN IT ANGLED
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-07-18
- Where
- Porterville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- TWO MINUTS
- Geo
- 36.065, -119.017 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-porterville-ca-1999-1ccac7
In context
- Porterville, CA shows up 36 times across the archive.
- 407 reports came from California in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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