Prescott, AZ, USA
These were individual craft flying in a distinct formation-- absolutely not flares.
Report quality: High77/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-13
- Where
- Prescott, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 mins. approx.
- Geo
- 34.540, -112.469 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-prescott-az-1997-06239c
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…
Local cluster
Prescott, AZ logged 5 reports in the single month of March 1997.
In context
- One of 48 documented reports from Prescott, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 145 sightings in 1997.
- Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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