CaseOther1997

Los Angeles, CA, USA

On busy Wilshire Blvd. I looked up between tall buildings, saw "Top Hat" shaped craft stationary between buildings. There were porthol

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-23
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 mins plus
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
other-over-los-angeles-ca-1997-5bedc2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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

  • Los Angeles, CA has 521 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 152 reports from California.
  • The 1990s skewed 8% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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