CaseFormation1997

Bellingham, WA, USA

Consistent with behavior of object burning on re-entry

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-14
Where
Bellingham, WA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
90 seconds
Geo
48.760, -122.488 · exact
Slug
formation-over-bellingham-wa-1997-b3e089
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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

  • Bellingham, WA shows up 136 times across the archive.
  • 89 reports came from Washington in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 2.7% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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