CaseDisk1997
Solomons Island, MD, USA
Close up at twilight, Stationary UFO.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-09-22
- Where
- Solomons Island, MD, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 38.322, -76.458 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-solomons-island-md-1997-cf1e76
Wave
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
- Solomons Island, MD shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 13 reports came from Maryland in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 7.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.