UFOMYST
CaseFormation1997

Tonasket (14 miles east of), WA, USA

Two couples see 2 brilliant lights and a formation of smaller lights following behind them in Central WA.

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-14
Where
Tonasket (14 miles east of), WA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
48.705, -119.439 · exact
Slug
formation-over-tonasket-14-miles-east-of-wa-1997-55f457
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Tonasket (14 miles east of), WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 89 sightings in 1997.
  • Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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