UFOMYST
CaseChanging1997

Petaluma, CA, USA

We saw and followed a bright light for quite a number of miles on a summer evening in July of 1997.

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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-02
Where
Petaluma, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
2.5 hours
Geo
38.232, -122.637 · exact
Slug
changing-over-petaluma-ca-1997-196204
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 43 documented reports from Petaluma, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 152 sightings in 1997.
  • Changing sightings ran at 1.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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