UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

White Sands Missile Range, NM, USA

It looked like a standard house lightbulb very bright and luminous.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-07
Where
White Sands Missile Range, NM, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 minutes/less
Geo
32.563, -106.570 · exact
Slug
circle-over-white-sands-missile-range-nm-1997-c2a067
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in White Sands Missile Range, NM.
  • This case is one of 24 New Mexico reports filed in 1997.
  • Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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