Montebello, CA, USA
We filmed this bright red light off and on for 45 minutes or longer.Though we could visibly see the light,you couldn't tell it was movi
Report quality: High81/100
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- Duration parsed: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-08-30
- Where
- Montebello, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 mins
- Geo
- 34.009, -118.105 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-montebello-ca-2003-0cfc14
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Part of a wave
CA flap 2003-08
CA, USA
13 sightings in geohash 9qh1 (CA) during 2003 peak months 8–8; top shape light
Local cluster
9 reports came out of Montebello, CA in August 2003 alone — a local cluster.
CA flap 2003-08
Logged as part of the CA flap 2003-08, a 13-report space-time cluster.
Explore this area →In context
- Montebello, CA has 26 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 599 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
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