UFOMYST
CaseFormation1997

Lake Tahoe (near), CA, USA

A "formation" of very bright lights passing very slowly and silently overhead. Must have been enormous. Biggest and most unusual thin

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-24
Where
Lake Tahoe (near), CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
20-30 min
Geo
39.145, -120.096 · exact
Slug
formation-over-lake-tahoe-near-ca-1997-504d02
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Lake Tahoe (near), CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 152 sightings in 1997.
  • Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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