CaseOval1997
Big Bear City, CA, USA
The object hovered over the airport then disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-14
- Where
- Big Bear City, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- one minute
- Geo
- 34.261, -116.845 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-big-bear-city-ca-1997-ee6702
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Big Bear City, CA has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 152 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 3.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.