CaseFormation1997
San Jose, CA, USA
I saw round solid color objects flying in pairs in daylight
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-30
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5min
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-san-jose-ca-1997-aec4af
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
- San Jose, CA has 277 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 152 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 2.7% formation reports; the archive-wide figure 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.