Hemet, CA, USA
My friends and I saw 1 very large, triangular shaped UFO, silently hovering approx: 100 ft in air and about 35 ft away from our car.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-02
- Where
- Hemet, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 33.748, -116.973 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-hemet-ca-1997-c6a46d
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
- Hemet, CA has 41 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 152 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 11.6% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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