CaseUnknown1997
Pell City, AL, USA
A fishing trip ends with a loud roar and a bright light waking me up in the night.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-15
- Where
- Pell City, AL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.586, -86.286 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-pell-city-al-1997-644451
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
- Pell City, AL shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from Alabama 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.