CaseChanging1997

Irvine, CA, USA

Craft (looked exactly like Gulf Breeze pictures) flew along nearby hillside, close enough to be seen clearly. Completly silent.

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 (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-15
Where
Irvine, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
33.669, -117.823 · exact
Slug
changing-over-irvine-ca-1997-23f190
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • Irvine, CA has 85 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 152 reports from California.
  • The 1990s skewed 1.9% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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