UFOMYST
Caselight1997

White Tank Mountains, AZ, USA

Saw bright light past mountains. Looked at it through binoculars. It was very large. Must have been 18 or 19 miles away. Due to it's si

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-12
Where
White Tank Mountains, AZ, USA
Shape
light
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
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Slug
light-over-white-tank-mountains-az-1997-a2337b
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in White Tank Mountains, AZ.
  • This case is one of 145 Arizona reports filed in 1997.
  • Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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