UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Bismarck/Caddo Valley (between), AR, USA

Orange burst of light that sped out over the lake

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-17
Where
Bismarck/Caddo Valley (between), AR, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
34.316, -93.171 · exact
Slug
light-over-bismarck-caddo-valley-between-ar-1997-18d2c6
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 Bismarck/Caddo Valley (between), AR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arkansas logged 11 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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