UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Phoenix, AZ, USA

Object like uprooted tree drifting over Arizona desert.

Report quality: Moderate66/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
other-over-phoenix-az-1997-82ffe0
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in July 1997.

In context

  • Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
  • 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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