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
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
- 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
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.