UFOMYST
CaseDisk1997

McKinlyville/Eureka (near Arcata Driving), CA, USA

SMALL DISK SHAPE UFO

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (20 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-01-14
Where
McKinlyville/Eureka (near Arcata Driving), CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
ONE MINUTE APROX.
Geo
40.802, -124.164 · exact
Slug
disk-over-mckinlyville-eureka-near-arcata-driving-ca-1997-64270b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • McKinlyville/Eureka (near Arcata Driving), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 152 reports came from California in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 7.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

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