UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Sarasota, FL, USA

What looked like a shooting star STOPS and changes direction 90 degrees and disappears!

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-01
Where
Sarasota, FL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
27.336, -82.531 · exact
Slug
other-over-sarasota-fl-1997-07c896
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

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    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

  • This is one of 130 reports logged in Sarasota, FL.
  • This case is one of 51 Florida reports filed in 1997.
  • Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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