UFOMYST
CaseOval1997

Calabash, NC, USA

This was a round solid object like a chandelier with many tiny white lights

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-01-15
Where
Calabash, NC, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
33.891, -78.568 · exact
Slug
oval-over-calabash-nc-1997-e2ac02
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…

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In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Calabash, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 25 sightings in 1997.
  • Oval sightings ran at 3.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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