UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Oceanside, CA, USA

AN ILLUMINATED OBJECT WAS FIRST SIGHTED IN THE SOUTHEAST,ILUMINATED WITH AN ORANGE LIGHT OF MEDIUM INTENCITY.THE OBJECT WAS FLYING AT A

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-05-02
Where
Oceanside, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
33.196, -117.379 · exact
Slug
other-over-oceanside-ca-1997-3ebdc6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Oceanside, CA has 53 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 152 reports from California.
  • The 1990s skewed 8% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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