UFOMYST
CaseDisk1997

Cottonwood, AZ, USA

Disc with amber lights seen near Verde River. Disc was accompanied by other unidentified objects.

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 (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-19
Where
Cottonwood, AZ, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
34.739, -112.010 · exact
Slug
disk-over-cottonwood-az-1997-4ef52f
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 30 reports logged in Cottonwood, AZ.
  • This case is one of 145 Arizona reports filed in 1997.
  • Disk craft made up 7.1% of 1990s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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