Los Angeles, CA, USA
Man noticed a peculiar "star-like" obj. in sky; suddenly accelerated and moved N to S VERY fast. Obj. zigzagged twice, disappeared.
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-21
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 -10 sec.
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-los-angeles-ca-1997-e77ade
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
- Los Angeles, CA shows up 521 times across the archive.
- 152 reports came from California in 1997.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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