CaseOval1997
Guntersville, AL, USA
new glass like craft seen
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (25 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-23
- Where
- Guntersville, AL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2MIN
- Geo
- 34.358, -86.294 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-guntersville-al-1997-c142e0
Wave
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
- Guntersville, AL shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from Alabama in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 3.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.