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

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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

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