Altus AFB, OK, USA
Object breaking up above western oklahomaAt 3:35am Central time over S.W. Oklahoma a bright object came from the north about 30 deg
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-01-22
- Where
- Altus AFB, OK, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 30sec
- Geo
- 34.664, -99.274 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-altus-afb-ok-1997-5c77d1
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Altus AFB, OK in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oklahoma logged 7 sightings in 1997.
- Changing sightings ran at 1.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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