CaseFormation1997

North Camano Island - Buena Vista area- above Utsalady Bay, WA, USA

Double line of bright, ember hot colored lights. From W. to E. Most amazing was the dark grey colored object in the wake of these. Look

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-14
Where
North Camano Island - Buena Vista area- above Utsalady Bay, WA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
20-60 seconds
Geo
Slug
formation-over-north-camano-island-buena-vista-area-above-utsalady-bay-wa-1997-c1e047
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…

In context

  • North Camano Island - Buena Vista area- above Utsalady Bay, WA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 89 reports from Washington.
  • The 1990s skewed 2.7% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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