UFOMYST
CaseDisk1997

Alturas, CA, USA

pink/reddish glow with a gray round craft there was only one. It swayed back and forth and dissappeared.Jan. 15, 1997 approx. 5:30p

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-01-15
Where
Alturas, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 Minutes
Geo
41.487, -120.543 · exact
Slug
disk-over-alturas-ca-1997-e1c582
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in Alturas, CA.
  • This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
  • Disk craft made up 7.1% of 1990s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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