UFOMYST
CaseUnknown1997

Atwater, CA, USA

Very bright light hovering over central california

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-15
Where
Atwater, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 mins
Geo
37.348, -120.609 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-atwater-ca-1997-63122f
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

  • One of 16 documented reports from Atwater, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 152 sightings in 1997.

Report

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