CaseFormation1997
Edmonds, WA, USA
Mass of lights moving simultaneously from west to east.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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 (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-14
- Where
- Edmonds, WA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1.5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.811, -122.377 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-edmonds-wa-1997-b24bb6
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
- Edmonds, WA has 84 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 89 reports from Washington.
- The 1990s skewed 2.7% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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