CaseLight1997
Libby, MT, USA
fuzzy ball of light hovers then rapidly streaks accross the sky in a southernly direction/8:35PM 3/13/97
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-13
- Where
- Libby, MT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1.5 minutes
- Geo
- 48.388, -115.556 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-libby-mt-1997-195ac2
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
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Libby, MT.
- This case is one of 12 Montana reports filed in 1997.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.