CaseFormation1997
Saxton, PA, USA
we were amazed by all of this
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 330s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (29 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-25
- Where
- Saxton, PA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5-6 mins
- Geo
- 40.215, -78.244 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-saxton-pa-1997-83f694
Wave
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 1 documented reports from Saxton, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 40 sightings in 1997.
- Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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