CaseFormation1997
Miami, FL, USA
Six stars in a vertical line, moving all at the same speed.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-23
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-miami-fl-1997-7ad8f7
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
- One of 340 documented reports from Miami, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 51 sightings in 1997.
- Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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