CaseCircle1997
Hot Springs, AR, USA
Three objects that turned into four objects.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (44 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-28
- Where
- Hot Springs, AR, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 34.504, -93.055 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-hot-springs-ar-1997-ee3342
Wave
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
- This is one of 25 reports logged in Hot Springs, AR.
- This case is one of 11 Arkansas reports filed in 1997.
- Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
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.