UFOMYST
CaseFormation1997

Manassas, VA, USA

observed a formation of approx fifty craft in upper atmosphere traverse night sky. formation was traversing sky fromwest to east and h

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-31
Where
Manassas, VA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 sec
Geo
38.751, -77.475 · exact
Slug
formation-over-manassas-va-1997-6a2762
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Manassas, VA has 39 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 23 reports from Virginia.
  • The 1990s skewed 2.7% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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