Santa Rosa, CA, USA
A brief encounter with a circular looking object that appeared to be on fire...A neighbors house down the street a circular looking
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-01-04
- Where
- Santa Rosa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 38.440, -122.714 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-santa-rosa-ca-1997-57eafe
Part of a wave
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
- One of 122 documented reports from Santa Rosa, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 152 sightings in 1997.
- Disk sightings ran at 7.1% during the 1990s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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