CaseDisk1997
San Diego, CA, USA
UFO seen at Camp Pendleton, San Diego, CA.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-15
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-san-diego-ca-1997-adf842
Wave
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 516 reports logged in San Diego, CA.
- This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
- Disk craft made up 7.1% of 1990s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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