UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Hayward, CA, USA

I observed several types of crafts over this period of time and many were daylight sightings.Also may have seen entity(e.t).

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-14
Where
Hayward, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3/5min. others??
Geo
37.669, -122.081 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-hayward-ca-1997-09bd48
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 71 documented reports from Hayward, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 152 sightings in 1997.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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