Santa Cruz, CA, USA
My roomate was taking a picture of me on a mountain. When he snapped a picture of the craft also. I was electrified or something and my
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-05
- Where
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-santa-cruz-ca-1997-1e1df1
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 76 documented reports from Santa Cruz, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 152 sightings in 1997.
- Diamond sightings ran at 1.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.4%).
Report
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