CaseUnknown2002
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, USA
Object leaves illuminated cloudlike spiralling path in the night sky, before disappearing
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-19
- Where
- Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- about 15 seconds
- Geo
- 33.641, -117.603 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-rancho-santa-margarita-ca-2002-0563e7
In context
- Rancho Santa Margarita, CA shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 430 reports came from California in 2002.
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.