Light over Coarsegold, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Driving north on highway 41 towards Yosemite there was a bright light going down the sky and in an instant there was a huge bright light and it suddenly fell straight down, with no question watching the faint cloud “line” of smoke or dust of whatever it may be get larger the longer I drive, and checking the internet the next day, nothing. Nothing to be said or heard or findings or any remnants of a “space debris”.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176430). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
Ask for the records
What would the paper say?
For a dated, located U.S. sighting, FAA radar data and ATC communications are the records most likely to exist. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-06-20 → 2023-07-07
From the same sky
Related entries
June 11, 2012 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Coarsegold, CA
Possibly satellites but 1 in trail of the other and the other in the same orbit opposite direction. Very unusual.
July 13, 2011 · 1:00 PM · DISK
Coarsegold, CA
UFO Sighting on the way up to the mountains on a road trip with family
February 27, 1999 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Coarsegold, CA
Two stars in west sky about 30 degrees above horison were moving back and forth. Then I saw only one. It was moving in a strange way up
August 13, 1998 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Coarsegold, CA
My husband and I spotted a silent craft with white lights in the shape of a triangle and one red light on the top center.
July 1, 1975 · 9:00 AM · CIRCLE
Coarsegold, CA
Small white light pursuing large green disc or ball.