CaseLight1998
Sonora, CA, USA
It was a red light (not flashing, brighter than Mars) about ten degrees above the horizon, in the East heading towards the South with a
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-08
- Where
- Sonora, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 37.984, -120.382 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sonora-ca-1998-6f44d5
In context
- Sonora, CA shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 232 reports came from California in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.