CaseOther1997

Willow Creek Campground, CA, USA

Late in the evening, just before retiring, A luminous object was spotted just above a mountain, and in between two trees. It appeared t

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-23
Where
Willow Creek Campground, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 hrs
Geo
Slug
other-over-willow-creek-campground-ca-1997-2c9433
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…

In context

  • Willow Creek Campground, CA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 152 reports from California.
  • The 1990s skewed 8% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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