Redding (northeast of, out over Millville, approximately), CA, USA
Two amber lights moving at the same distance apart beginning at one end of Redding and ending in the north eastern direction above Redd
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-04
- Where
- Redding (northeast of, out over Millville, approximately), CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.587, -122.392 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-redding-northeast-of-out-over-millville-approximately-ca-1997-02f9f2
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Redding (northeast of, out over Millville, approximately), CA.
- This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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