UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Willow Creek, CA, USA

Blue orb appears out of nowhere, lights up huge area, and then sets behind my house on mountain-side.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-01
Where
Willow Creek, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.940, -123.631 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-willow-creek-ca-1997-999ee8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Willow Creek, CA.
  • This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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