CaseOval1997
Victoria (Saxe Point) (Canada), BC, Canada
It hovered for a long time and then streaked across the sky where it disapeared ina flash.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-23
- Where
- Victoria (Saxe Point) (Canada), BC, Canada
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 48.436, -123.352 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-victoria-saxe-point-canada-bc-1997-2e1e38
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 Victoria (Saxe Point) (Canada), Canada.
- This case is one of 63 Canada 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.