Amelia, OH, USA
We saw a large "spotlight" at about 100-150 ft directly above us. It had one flashing red light above the spotlight and two white light
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-01-07
- Where
- Amelia, OH, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 39.028, -84.218 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-amelia-oh-1997-52a093
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
- Amelia, OH has 9 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 29 reports from Ohio.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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