Tucson, AZ, USA
I was driving west from Texas on interstate 10. I do not remember the time of the evening it was. I passed the Tucson city limits, and
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-13
- Where
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 32.222, -110.926 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-tucson-az-1997-1789b8
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Tucson, AZ in March 1997 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Tucson, AZ has 426 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 145 reports from Arizona.
- The 1990s skewed 1.3% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.