UFOMYST
CaseFormation1997

South of Kalamath Falls,, OR, USA

Five lights appeared in the sky all the same distance apart, in a straight line.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-20
Where
South of Kalamath Falls,, OR, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
approx 8min
Geo
—
Slug
formation-over-south-of-kalamath-falls-or-1997-7bd2da
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

  • South of Kalamath Falls,, OR shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 37 reports came from Oregon in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 2.7% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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