CaseDisk1997

Costa Rica, Costa Rica

12/26/97.. A mass sighting of UFOs over Costa Rica, C.A. was reported on CNNs web site this morning.. you might want to check it out.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-22
Where
Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Shape
Disk
Duration
Geo
-18.544, -53.129 · fallback
Slug
disk-over-costa-rica-1997-fc2a49
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Costa Rica, Costa Rica in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Costa Rica logged 2 sightings in 1997.
  • Disk sightings ran at 7.1% during the 1990s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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