UFOMYST
CaseFormation1997

Simi Valley, CA, USA

"Delta" shaped group of motionless bright red lights sighted over Simi Valley, Calif.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-22
Where
Simi Valley, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
4 Min.
Geo
34.269, -118.781 · exact
Slug
formation-over-simi-valley-ca-1997-502fbd
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Simi Valley, CA shows up 65 times across the archive.
  • 152 reports came from California in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 2.7% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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