UFOMYST
CaseDisk1997

Athabasca (Canada), AB, Canada

Me and family were driving home from town...it was just before dusk and we spotted a large bright light sitting in the west sky. It was

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-27
Where
Athabasca (Canada), AB, Canada
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 hours
Geo
54.717, -113.285 · exact
Slug
disk-over-athabasca-canada-ab-1997-fa7866
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Athabasca (Canada), Canada has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 63 reports from Canada.
  • The 1990s skewed 7.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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