CaseUnknown1997
Silver City, NM, USA
the object had no nav. light and moved about in a strange pattern
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-15
- Where
- Silver City, NM, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 32.770, -108.280 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-silver-city-nm-1997-6da791
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
- One of 21 documented reports from Silver City, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 24 sightings 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.