CaseUnknown1996
Merced, CA, USA
Man sees very bright, "electric-blue" light traveling S to N in E sky. Light, "size of Venus," suddenly disappears. Silent, no tail.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-04-26
- Where
- Merced, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 sec.
- Geo
- 37.302, -120.483 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-merced-ca-1996-92c9fc
In context
- One of 34 documented reports from Merced, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 136 sightings in 1996.
Report
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