Glendale, AZ, USA
Fireball on the top of mountain behind Luke Air Force Base, AZ.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-13
- Where
- Glendale, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 33.539, -112.186 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-glendale-az-1997-03f836
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Glendale, AZ reports filed in March 1997.
In context
- Glendale, AZ shows up 115 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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