Medford, OR, USA
Sighting was reported in July 15, 1997 edition of The Mail Tribune, the Medford, OR daily newspaper. Object flew in sky and made sharp
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-14
- Where
- Medford, OR, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 42.327, -122.876 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-medford-or-1997-82a35f
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
- Medford, OR shows up 75 times across the archive.
- 37 reports came from Oregon in 1997.
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.