UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Phoenix, AZ, USA

Bright object in SSE over Phoenix, May 21, 1997 in the morning sky.

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-21
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 hrs.
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
other-over-phoenix-az-1997-7f5290
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 741 documented reports from Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 145 sightings in 1997.
  • Other sightings ran at 8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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