CaseOval1997
St. David, AZ, USA
Sighted grey metallic saucer with no lights hovering over the Whetstone Mts. Watched it for about an hour.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-02-28
- Where
- St. David, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- abt 1 hour
- Geo
- 31.904, -110.214 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-st-david-az-1997-b181df
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 1 reports logged in St. David, AZ.
- This case is one of 145 Arizona 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.