CaseTriangle1998
Bakersfield, CA, USA
Black triangular object moving slowly through the night sky.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-01
- Where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 35.373, -119.019 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-bakersfield-ca-1998-692c83
In context
- Bakersfield, CA has 140 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
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.