CaseLight1997
Tempe, AZ, USA
Nothing WE have, could have done what we all saw that night.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-13
- Where
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 33.415, -111.909 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tempe-az-1997-2b7082
Wave
Part of a wave
AZ flap 1997-03
AZ, USA
47 sightings in geohash 9tbq (AZ) during 1997 peak months 3–3; top shape triangle
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Tempe, AZ reports filed in March 1997.
Flap
AZ flap 1997-03
This report belongs to the AZ flap 1997-03 — 47 sightings concentrated together.
Explore this area →In context
- Tempe, AZ shows up 116 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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