UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Phoenix, AZ, USA

The Phoenix Lights, March 13, 1997 . . . I Saw Something Different

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-03-17
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
~4 minutes
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
light-over-phoenix-az-1997-15460a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap1997

    AZ flap 1997-03

    AZ, USA

    47 sightings in geohash 9tbq (AZ) during 1997 peak months 3–3; top shape triangle

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Phoenix, AZ logged 33 reports in the single month of March 1997.

Flap

AZ flap 1997-03

This case is part of the AZ flap 1997-03 — 47 reports clustered in the same place and window of time.

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In context

  • One of 741 documented reports from Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 145 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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