UFOMYST
CaseDisk1997

Santa Monica, CA, USA

On May 7, 1997 I was looking north to the Santa Monica mountains and saw what I believed to be a helicopter shining its lights down on

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-07
Where
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
34.019, -118.491 · exact
Slug
disk-over-santa-monica-ca-1997-7433c1
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 61 reports logged in Santa Monica, 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.

Report

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