CaseFormation1997
Goldsboro, NC, USA
1997 rotating stars positioned to left and right of moon do fast clockwise rotations
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-15
- Where
- Goldsboro, NC, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 20 mins
- Geo
- 35.385, -77.993 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-goldsboro-nc-1997-8f7409
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
- This is one of 18 reports logged in Goldsboro, NC.
- This case is one of 25 North Carolina 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.