Caseoval1997
San Francisco, CA, USA
close oval white object transforms self to a circular green object - both had trails of same color
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-24
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- oval
- Duration
- 5-10 seconds
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-san-francisco-ca-1997-4d2e4b
Wave
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
- This is one of 241 reports logged in San Francisco, CA.
- This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
- Oval craft made up 3.6% of 1990s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.