Casecircle1997

Carefree, AZ, USA

Large round object glowing a bright green, with also some yellow & white light dropping to the NE from SW, to near ground level at abou

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-20
Where
Carefree, AZ, USA
Shape
circle
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
33.822, -111.918 · exact
Slug
circle-over-carefree-az-1997-fa53ad
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

  • Carefree, AZ shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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