Roy, WA, USA
It was flying over the top of the truck I was driving, & there was another one off in the distance. They Looked Like flying Merry-go-Ro
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-15
- Where
- Roy, WA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 3 Min.
- Geo
- 47.004, -122.540 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-roy-wa-1997-fb376a
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
- Roy, WA has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 89 reports from Washington.
- The 1990s skewed 1.3% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.
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.