UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Hawthorne, CA, USA

A light flashed by a man at close range.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-15
Where
Hawthorne, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
33.916, -118.353 · exact
Slug
light-over-hawthorne-ca-1997-244d45
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Hawthorne, CA shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 152 reports came from California in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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