CaseLight2002
Yosemite National Park, CA, USA
Slow flying very bright ball of light, surrounded by a much larger halo of light, trailed by miles of zig-zaging smoke.
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 (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-19
- Where
- Yosemite National Park, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 37.848, -119.557 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-yosemite-national-park-ca-2002-12e085
In context
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Yosemite National Park, CA.
- This case is one of 430 California reports filed in 2002.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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