UFOMYST
CaseFormation1997

Manassas, VA, USA

Seen 4 lights, high speed, very high altitudein the Manassas, VA area.

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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-24
Where
Manassas, VA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
20-25 secs.
Geo
38.751, -77.475 · exact
Slug
formation-over-manassas-va-1997-7ec6e3
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

  • This is one of 39 reports logged in Manassas, VA.
  • This case is one of 23 Virginia reports filed in 1997.
  • Formation craft made up 2.7% of 1990s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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