Scottsdale, AZ, USA
A bright red object was seen traveling from west Phoenix to east TempeSpeed was slow (probably too slow for most aircraft), it also app
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-04
- Where
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- ~15 minutes
- Geo
- 33.509, -111.899 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-scottsdale-az-1997-9acec4
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
- Scottsdale, AZ shows up 172 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
Report
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