Prescott, AZ, USA
Saw 5 bright lights in triangle formation in the northand heading southeast at an extremely fast speed.
Report quality: High77/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-13
- Where
- Prescott, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 34.540, -112.469 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-prescott-az-1997-268970
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…
Local cluster
March 1997 was a busy month for Prescott, AZ: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 48 reports logged in Prescott, AZ.
- This case is one of 145 Arizona reports filed in 1997.
- Formation craft made up 2.7% of 1990s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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