CaseUnknown2001
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, USA
Brief pulse of visible, white light from an unknown source, which made daylight appear to be extremely bright
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-04-17
- Where
- Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- < 1 second
- Geo
- 33.641, -117.603 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-rancho-santa-margarita-ca-2001-752275
In context
- Rancho Santa Margarita, CA has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 379 reports from California.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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