UFOMYST
CaseFormation1997

Fresno, CA, USA

AS I SAT IN MY PARENT'S BACK YARD FACING DIRECTLY SOUTH, I NOTICED 6 LIGHTS SIDE BY SIDE MOVING AT A FARELY FAST PACE. THEY WERE SIDE

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-13
Where
Fresno, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
40 TO 60 SECONDS
Geo
36.748, -119.772 · exact
Slug
formation-over-fresno-ca-1997-582594
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Fresno, CA shows up 171 times across the archive.
  • 152 reports came from California in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 2.7% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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