UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

Montebello, CA, USA

Report of fire ball hovering above a city street.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-01
Where
Montebello, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
40 seconds
Geo
34.009, -118.105 · exact
Slug
circle-over-montebello-ca-1997-170c13
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 26 reports logged in Montebello, CA.
  • This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
  • Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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