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
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
- 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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