CaseUnknown1996

Shafter, CA, USA

Object goes through shinihg hole! ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax?? PD))

Report quality: Low2/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
1996-03-14
Where
Shafter, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
35.501, -119.272 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-shafter-ca-1996-bddc75

In context

  • Shafter, CA shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 136 reports came from California in 1996.

Report

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