UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop1997

Manhattan Beach, CA, USA

Spheres clone then vanish

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (25 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-18
Where
Manhattan Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
10-20 minutes
Geo
33.885, -118.411 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-manhattan-beach-ca-1997-4f7d24
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Manhattan Beach, CA has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 152 reports from California.
  • The 1990s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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