UFOMYST
CaseFormation1997

Fresh Pond, CA, USA

Large green glowing ball of light over the Sierras

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-29
Where
Fresh Pond, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
25 minutes
Geo
38.760, -120.530 · exact
Slug
formation-over-fresh-pond-ca-1997-c19d5c
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Fresh Pond, CA.
  • This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
  • Formation craft made up 2.7% of 1990s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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