Phoenix, AZ, USA
((NUFORC Note: We suspect the possibility of twinkling stars. Just a guess. PD)) Stationary red-green=white lights.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 1997-06-01
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 4 hrs
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-phoenix-az-1997-a62ba5
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Phoenix, AZ in June 1997 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ has 741 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 145 reports from Arizona.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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