UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Southern California Operations Area, CA, USA

UFO Sighting on aboard Naval Ship while at sea

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.

  • Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-01
Where
Southern California Operations Area, CA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
20 mins
Geo
—
Slug
triangle-over-southern-california-operations-area-ca-1997-d232c9
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Southern California Operations Area, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 152 sightings in 1997.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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