UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Citrus Heights (a suburb of Sacramento), CA, USA

Object of an unknown type cruising at a low rate of speed over the area of Citrus Heights

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-08
Where
Citrus Heights (a suburb of Sacramento), CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 min (approx)
Geo
38.707, -121.281 · exact
Slug
other-over-citrus-heights-a-suburb-of-sacramento-ca-1997-3b3c18
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Citrus Heights (a suburb of Sacramento), CA.
  • This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
  • Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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