San Francisco (Observed from), CA, USA
Large sphere and cylinder space junk reentering atmosphere southeasterly of San Francisco probably in Central Valley or Nevada.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-12-01
- Where
- San Francisco (Observed from), CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-san-francisco-observed-from-ca-1997-d69da8
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
- San Francisco (Observed from), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 152 reports came from California in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.