CaseFormation1997
Lincoln, NH, USA
A static formation of 15 metallic spheres observed by about 150 people in a clear daylight sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 4500s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-31
- Where
- Lincoln, NH, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 60-90 minutes
- Geo
- 44.046, -71.670 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-lincoln-nh-1997-5fafee
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
- Lincoln, NH shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from New Hampshire in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 2.7% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
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.