Alta, UT, USA
A "moving star" similar to a satellite stopped, hovered, and darted around for over 3 hours. A telescope revealed a round shape.I
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-01-24
- Where
- Alta, UT, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 3 hours plus
- Geo
- 40.589, -111.638 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-alta-ut-1997-b6df50
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 1 reports logged in Alta, UT.
- This case is one of 23 Utah reports filed in 1997.
- Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% 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.