CaseChanging1977

Ukiah, CA, USA

Seperating points of light

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-08-28
Where
Ukiah, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1 minute
Geo
39.150, -123.208 · exact
Slug
changing-over-ukiah-ca-1977-d597cc
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Ukiah, CA shows up 22 times across the archive.
  • 44 reports came from California in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 1% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

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.