Chino Valley, AZ, USA
Observed 5 white lights approaching from thenorthwest at what appeared to be a low levelbut rising as they approached. 3 lights infron
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-13
- Where
- Chino Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 to 5 Minutes
- Geo
- 34.758, -112.454 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-chino-valley-az-1997-ecc57f
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
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Chino Valley, AZ.
- This case is one of 145 Arizona reports filed in 1997.
- Formation craft made up 2.7% of 1990s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
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.