Brentwood, CA, USA
I saw three lights forming a V shape in the night sky about 300 feet in the air. There was no noise and they were moving slowly in an e
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-12
- Where
- Brentwood, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 Seconds
- Geo
- 37.932, -121.696 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-brentwood-ca-1997-2d85ae
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
- Brentwood, CA has 17 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 152 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 2.7% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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