CaseLight1997

Mojave, CA, USA

Small triangular formations in desert sky, forming into larger triangle formation

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-16
Where
Mojave, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10min
Geo
35.052, -118.174 · exact
Slug
light-over-mojave-ca-1997-266389
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

  • Mojave, CA has 25 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 152 reports from California.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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