CaseEgg1997
Long Beach, CA, USA
egg shape UFO sppoted 4th of Jul 1997 Stainless steal reflective in color about 13:00 hours hovering
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-04
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-long-beach-ca-1997-0aa6af
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
- Long Beach, CA shows up 142 times across the archive.
- 152 reports came from California in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 1.1% of reports described a egg — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.