UFOMYST
CaseChevron1997

Pico Rivera, CA, USA

black,low flying from north to south,like from civic center to long beach silent,pencil thin very quick less then 1000ft elev.? appeard

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-17
Where
Pico Rivera, CA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
15sec
Geo
33.983, -118.097 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-pico-rivera-ca-1997-06bd73
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

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    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Pico Rivera, CA shows up 22 times across the archive.
  • 152 reports came from California in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 1.3% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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