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CaseLight2003

Montebello, CA, USA

Bright red light in the skies over Los Angeles - stationary at first, then blinking in morse-code

Report quality: High77/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2003-08-28
Where
Montebello, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
About 1 hour
Geo
34.009, -118.105 · exact
Slug
light-over-montebello-ca-2003-b5fe63
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2003

    CA flap 2003-08

    CA, USA

    13 sightings in geohash 9qh1 (CA) during 2003 peak months 8–8; top shape light

    13 reportsOpen wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 9 Montebello, CA reports filed in August 2003.

Flap

CA flap 2003-08

This report belongs to the CA flap 2003-08 — 13 sightings concentrated together.

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In context

  • Montebello, CA shows up 26 times across the archive.
  • 599 reports came from California in 2003.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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