Aquaduct (near, over desert, before entering California), CA, USA
Flying Westward in a UAL plane over the desert near the aquaduct before entering CA, another UAL plane approached and passed beneath us
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.
- Duration parsed: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-17
- Where
- Aquaduct (near, over desert, before entering California), CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1-2 min.
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- triangle-over-aquaduct-near-over-desert-before-entering-california-ca-1997-ead5f0
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 1 reports logged in Aquaduct (near, over desert, before entering California), CA.
- This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
- Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 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.