CaseLight1996
San Mateo, CA, USA
Silent Close Range White Light seen on Highway 280 south of Highway 92. Witnessed by 3.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-10-15
- Where
- San Mateo, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 Minutes
- Geo
- 37.563, -122.326 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-mateo-ca-1996-b964a8
In context
- This is one of 19 reports logged in San Mateo, CA.
- This case is one of 136 California reports filed in 1996.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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