UFOMYST
CaseChanging1997

Santa Clara, CA, USA

It sped off at a teriffic speed, changing size and color.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-08
Where
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
appx 2 min
Geo
37.354, -121.955 · exact
Slug
changing-over-santa-clara-ca-1997-2c6259
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 37 documented reports from Santa Clara, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 152 sightings in 1997.
  • Changing sightings ran at 1.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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