San Francisco, CA, USA
2 small (about 1 ft. long & 200 ft. away at closest) dark objects circling each other then sped south,followed min. later by 2 more.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-05
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-san-francisco-ca-1997-eec07b
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 241 documented reports from San Francisco, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 152 sightings in 1997.
- Oval sightings ran at 3.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 4.3%).
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.