Victorville (east of), CA, USA
glowing circular object about 30 degrees above the southwestern horizon. Was moving slowly down and had no trail like a meteorite. Ob
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-12-30
- Where
- Victorville (east of), CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 4-5 seconds
- Geo
- 34.536, -117.291 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-victorville-east-of-ca-1997-78fccc
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 Victorville (east of), 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.
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.