UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

Dateland, AZ, USA

Hovering Light Formation in Southwest Arizona in March 1997

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-13
Where
Dateland, AZ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 Minutes
Geo
32.796, -113.541 · exact
Slug
circle-over-dateland-az-1997-e30eff
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Dateland, AZ.
  • This case is one of 145 Arizona reports filed in 1997.
  • Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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