CaseFormation1997
Alaska Airlines/Sea-Tac to Anchorage (Canada), BC, Canada
Stewardess informs passengers that a satellite has broken up and is coming over the airplane.
Report quality: Low39/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-14
- Where
- Alaska Airlines/Sea-Tac to Anchorage (Canada), BC, Canada
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- formation-over-alaska-airlines-sea-tac-to-anchorage-canada-bc-1997-0e39e5
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 1 reports logged in Alaska Airlines/Sea-Tac to Anchorage (Canada), Canada.
- This case is one of 63 Canada reports filed in 1997.
- Formation craft made up 2.7% of 1990s reports, vs 3.3% 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.