UFOMYST
CaseDisk1997

Oakland, CA, USA

Saw hovering craft above SF Bay Area above Oakland Coliseum area. Craft was saucer like from what we could see. The top was unlit and

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-14
Where
Oakland, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
37.804, -122.271 · exact
Slug
disk-over-oakland-ca-1997-307a05
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 84 documented reports from Oakland, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 152 sightings in 1997.
  • Disk sightings ran at 7.1% during the 1990s (archive average: 5.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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