CaseLight1997
Swanville, ME, USA
It was a bunch of flashing lights almost like a strobe light
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-15
- Where
- Swanville, ME, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 44.521, -68.998 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-swanville-me-1997-d5f241
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
- Swanville, ME shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from Maine in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.