CaseLight1997

Arlington, WA, USA

Just went to bed, glanced out window and saw a white/yellow light in trees. Told friend, got binocluars and looked at it through them,

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-07-27
Where
Arlington, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1-2minutes
Geo
48.199, -122.125 · exact
Slug
light-over-arlington-wa-1997-bfe5ba
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

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    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

  • Arlington, WA shows up 54 times across the archive.
  • 89 reports came from Washington in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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