CaseTriangle1997

Aquaduct (near, over desert, before entering California), CA, USA

Flying Westward in a UAL plane over the desert near the aquaduct before entering CA, another UAL plane approached and passed beneath us

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-17
Where
Aquaduct (near, over desert, before entering California), CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1-2 min.
Geo
Slug
triangle-over-aquaduct-near-over-desert-before-entering-california-ca-1997-ead5f0
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Aquaduct (near, over desert, before entering California), CA.
  • This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
  • Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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