CaseTeardrop1998
Baker/Las Vegas (Between; 30 mi. NE of Baker on I-5 East), CA, USA
Flouresent Green with yellow/red trailing fire, dropping at a 60-70 degree angle to floor of desert, 1/2 mile each side of freeway.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-25
- Where
- Baker/Las Vegas (Between; 30 mi. NE of Baker on I-5 East), CA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 35.265, -116.074 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-baker-las-vegas-between-30-mi-ne-of-baker-on-i-5-east-ca-1998-18c2bd
In context
- Baker/Las Vegas (Between; 30 mi. NE of Baker on I-5 East), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 232 reports came from California in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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