CaseLight1996
Tehachapi Mtns., CA, USA
Couple see very bright, orange/red obj. approach from W, turn 90 deg., go S. Large, comet-like tail. (Missle from Vandenberg AFB).
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-02-24
- Where
- Tehachapi Mtns., CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 min.
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-tehachapi-mtns-ca-1996-883553
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Tehachapi Mtns., 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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