UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Yucca Valley/Morongo Valley, CA, USA

I just seen this thing flying in the air I took some pictures and I took pictures of the helicopter chasing it, I can't remember the da

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-02-01
Where
Yucca Valley/Morongo Valley, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 or 3 min.
Geo
34.114, -116.432 · exact
Slug
other-over-yucca-valley-morongo-valley-ca-1997-56454d
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Yucca Valley/Morongo Valley, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 152 reports came from California in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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