CaseChevron1997

Pilot Butte (Canada), SA, Canada

seen when observing the Perseid meteor shower august 1997

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-08-12
Where
Pilot Butte (Canada), SA, Canada
Shape
Chevron
Duration
1min.
Geo
50.480, -104.419 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-pilot-butte-canada-sa-1997-52ee8a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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 2 documented reports from Pilot Butte (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Canada logged 63 sightings in 1997.
  • Chevron sightings ran at 1.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.1%).

Report

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