CaseDisk1986
Petaluma, CA, USA
Saw darting object in the night sky, move fast, stop, move fast stop. Then it flew low over my house and I heard the UFO.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-10-15
- Where
- Petaluma, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 38.232, -122.637 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-petaluma-ca-1986-c589dc
In context
- Petaluma, CA shows up 43 times across the archive.
- 27 reports came from California in 1986.
- In the 1980s, 14.3% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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