CaseLight1997
Randle (near), WA, USA
Large bright object moving horizontal in the evening sky, very low, made no noise.
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-05
- Where
- Randle (near), WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 Seconds
- Geo
- 46.535, -121.957 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-randle-near-wa-1997-a46e83
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
- Randle (near), WA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 89 reports from Washington.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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