El Centro, CA, USA
The big v shape UFO was moving in a slow motion towards the super Kmart in El Centro CA. when I saw it outside the store.
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-01
- Where
- El Centro, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- minutes
- Geo
- 32.792, -115.563 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-el-centro-ca-1997-52dc35
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
- One of 21 documented reports from El Centro, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 152 sightings in 1997.
- Chevron sightings ran at 1.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.1%).
Report
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