CaseChevron1997

Tucson, AZ, USA

I was driving west from Texas on interstate 10. I do not remember the time of the evening it was. I passed the Tucson city limits, and

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-03-13
Where
Tucson, AZ, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
32.222, -110.926 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-tucson-az-1997-1789b8
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Tucson, AZ in March 1997 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Tucson, AZ has 426 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 145 reports from Arizona.
  • The 1990s skewed 1.3% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.

Report

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