Phoenix, AZ, USA
A mile-wide V of lights drifted over Arizona on March 13, 1997 — thousands of witnesses, military flares, and a governor’s on-camera joke that never quite closed the case.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-13
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- hours
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- phoenix-lights-1997
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
- Seattle, WA shows up 713 times across the archive.
- 275 reports came from Washington in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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