CaseChevron1997

Springfield, MA, USA

Very big no sound

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (17 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-01
Where
Springfield, MA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
42.101, -72.590 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-springfield-ma-1997-64f2f5
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

  • Springfield, MA shows up 47 times across the archive.
  • 18 reports came from Massachusetts in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 1.3% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.

Report

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