CaseCircle1998

El Monte, CA, USA

I noticed three craft flying in a straght line with a fourth craft flying between the second two, making a right trangle, off to the ri

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1998-10-02
Where
El Monte, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
about 10 min.
Geo
34.069, -118.028 · exact
Slug
circle-over-el-monte-ca-1998-76d1a2

In context

  • El Monte, CA has 14 sightings on file here.
  • 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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