Tamaqua, PA, USA
A light was seen up in the sky with small lights shining down from it it dissapeared and a possible abduction took place the following
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-15
- Where
- Tamaqua, PA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 40.797, -75.969 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tamaqua-pa-1997-09ffce
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 4 reports logged in Tamaqua, PA.
- This case is one of 40 Pennsylvania 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.