CaseLight1988
Tecate, CA, USA
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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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-08-01
- Where
- Tecate, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 32.577, -116.628 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tecate-ca-1988-1a1a01
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Tecate, CA.
- This case is one of 30 California reports filed in 1988.
- Light craft made up 11% of 1980s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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