CaseOval1997
Salisbury, MD, USA
A gold ovalish shaped craft hovering just over the tree line, varrying in intensity of light, no sound.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-24
- Where
- Salisbury, MD, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.361, -75.599 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-salisbury-md-1997-77fb91
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
- This is one of 17 reports logged in Salisbury, MD.
- This case is one of 13 Maryland reports filed in 1997.
- Oval craft made up 3.6% of 1990s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
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.