UFOMYST
CaseOval1997

Death Valley Gas Station, CA, USA

Midnight, Gas station, Death Valley, we saw an awesome feat of extra-terrestrial life in the sky.

Report quality: Low39/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-12
Where
Death Valley Gas Station, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
Trip to California
Geo
—
Slug
oval-over-death-valley-gas-station-ca-1997-de32dd
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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    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…

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In context

  • Death Valley Gas Station, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 152 reports came from California in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 3.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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