Carlisle, PA, USA
An object that looked like a satillite, suddenly became bright when we blinked a flashlight at it.It was joined by 7 others that flew i
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-27
- Where
- Carlisle, PA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 minute
- Geo
- 40.201, -77.189 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-carlisle-pa-1997-73ad00
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
- Carlisle, PA has 18 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 40 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 1990s skewed 2.7% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
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.