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
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 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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