UFOMYST
CaseEgg1997

Los Angeles, CA, USA

This is a classic report. I have never been able to forget it. I did report it to LAMUFON and I was contacted about it. We spoke for at

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-15
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Egg
Duration
~5 minutes
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
egg-over-los-angeles-ca-1997-dc1231
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Los Angeles, CA shows up 521 times across the archive.
  • 152 reports came from California in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 1.1% of reports described a egg — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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