Burlington, VT, USA
Large object at above 50,000 feet: est speed around 3,000 kts: diamond design. no visable trail: est 300 x 300 feet. Have seen in ar
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 (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-12-17
- Where
- Burlington, VT, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 44.476, -73.212 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-burlington-vt-1997-788e59
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
- This is one of 29 reports logged in Burlington, VT.
- This case is one of 3 Vermont reports filed in 1997.
- Diamond craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
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.