UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Phoenix (Tempe), AZ, USA

5 orange colored lights fall toward earth like fireworks. Shortly after they hovered in place, pulsating and began moving at odd traje

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-13
Where
Phoenix (Tempe), AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
7 min.
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
light-over-phoenix-tempe-az-1997-d5f72d
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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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 3 documented reports from Phoenix (Tempe), 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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