CaseFormation1997

Alaska Airlines/Sea-Tac to Anchorage (Canada), BC, Canada

Stewardess informs passengers that a satellite has broken up and is coming over the airplane.

Report quality: Low39/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-14
Where
Alaska Airlines/Sea-Tac to Anchorage (Canada), BC, Canada
Shape
Formation
Duration
unknown
Geo
Slug
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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…

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Alaska Airlines/Sea-Tac to Anchorage (Canada), Canada.
  • This case is one of 63 Canada reports filed in 1997.
  • Formation craft made up 2.7% of 1990s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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