Phoenix, AZ, USA
a large black object kind of like a shadow passed over head while we were waiting for the fire works to start
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-04
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-phoenix-az-1997-71a74e
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…
Local cluster
July 1997 was a busy month for Phoenix, AZ: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 741 reports logged in Phoenix, AZ.
- This case is one of 145 Arizona reports filed in 1997.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.4% of 1990s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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