Overton, NV, USA
six spherical objects with pulsating red and green lights, one constant white light at one o'clock position unless object turns, then c
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-03
- Where
- Overton, NV, USA
- Shape
- sphere
- Duration
- 2:30
- Geo
- 36.543, -114.447 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-overton-nv-1997-1981ec
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
- Overton, NV shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 29 reports came from Nevada in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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.