UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

Borrego Springs, CA, USA

Superstition Hill UFO sighting summer 1997 I went camping off of Old Kane Springs Road, Borrego Springs, California just south of High

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-15
Where
Borrego Springs, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
33.256, -116.375 · exact
Slug
circle-over-borrego-springs-ca-1997-5b7d59
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Borrego Springs, CA has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 152 reports from California.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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