UFOMYST
CaseFormation1997

Prescott, AZ, USA

Observed five yellow-white lights travelling from NW to NE then turning to S

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 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
10 min
Geo
34.540, -112.469 · exact
Slug
formation-over-prescott-az-1997-bbf0c8
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

5 reports came out of Prescott, AZ in March 1997 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Prescott, AZ has 48 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 145 reports from Arizona.
  • The 1990s skewed 2.7% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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