UFOMYST
CaseFormation1997

Northwest Tempe, AZ, USA

We saw 5 red lights, in a V formation, from the north to the south, in a fifteen minute period.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-13
Where
Northwest Tempe, AZ, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
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Slug
formation-over-northwest-tempe-az-1997-d55a7d
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 Northwest Tempe, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 145 sightings in 1997.
  • Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).

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