Phoenix, AZ, USA
From North to South over Camelback mountain High in the Arizona sky Hundreds of citizens see a phenomena of lights Soundlessly, slowly
Report quality: High89/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 29 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-13
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-phoenix-az-1997-0dd806
Part of a wave
AZ flap 1997-03
AZ, USA
47 sightings in geohash 9tbq (AZ) during 1997 peak months 3–3; top shape triangle
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 33 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in March 1997.
AZ flap 1997-03
This report belongs to the AZ flap 1997-03 — 47 sightings concentrated together.
Explore this area →In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 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%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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