Alturas, CA, USA
pink/reddish glow with a gray round craft there was only one. It swayed back and forth and dissappeared.Jan. 15, 1997 approx. 5:30p
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-01-15
- Where
- Alturas, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3 Minutes
- Geo
- 41.487, -120.543 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-alturas-ca-1997-e1c582
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
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Alturas, CA.
- This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
- Disk craft made up 7.1% of 1990s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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.