La Puente, CA, USA
From a stand-still... to a one-second period of ignition... followed by one-second of what sounded like the after-burner of a massive-
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-02-15
- Where
- La Puente, CA, USA
- Shape
- other
- Duration
- 2.0 seconds
- Geo
- 34.020, -117.950 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-la-puente-ca-1997-44a523
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
- This is one of 16 reports logged in La Puente, CA.
- This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
- Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.