Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA
Red flare like lights in formation. Tv footage was very good. Airline piolt reported alt as 10,000 This story did not make it out of Pa
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-15
- Where
- Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- over 1 hour
- Geo
- 26.823, -80.139 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-palm-beach-gardens-fl-1997-9a79d0
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 23 documented reports from Palm Beach Gardens, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 51 sightings in 1997.
- Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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