Phoenix, AZ, USA
white cylendar, stationary, no markings, no lights, no sound.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-21
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- cylinder
- Duration
- 2 to 3 min.s
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-phoenix-az-1997-01c2ee
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…
Local cluster
Phoenix, AZ logged 4 reports in the single month of June 1997.
In context
- One of 741 documented reports from Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 145 sightings in 1997.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.4% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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