CaseLight1997
Golden Valley, AZ, USA
three swiftly moving blue blurs each about 30 meters in length, however it was blurred
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-15
- Where
- Golden Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3seconds
- Geo
- 35.223, -114.223 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-golden-valley-az-1997-7bbc24
Wave
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
- One of 14 documented reports from Golden Valley, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 145 sightings in 1997.
- Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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