UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Prescott, AZ, USA

large, bright, green "shooting star", 5 minutes later shock wave + rattling windows. seen to the south.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-17
Where
Prescott, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 min
Geo
34.540, -112.469 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-prescott-az-1997-2547e5
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 48 reports logged in Prescott, AZ.
  • This case is one of 145 Arizona reports filed in 1997.
  • Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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