CaseDisk1997

McMinnville, OR, USA

I was watching fire works with binoculars, and I saw something weird. As I watched it, I ruled out the possibility of a plane or fire w

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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
McMinnville, OR, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
50 seconds
Geo
45.210, -123.199 · exact
Slug
disk-over-mcminnville-or-1997-f8d499
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…

In context

  • This is one of 27 reports logged in McMinnville, OR.
  • This case is one of 37 Oregon reports filed in 1997.
  • Disk craft made up 7.1% of 1990s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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